10-Minute Writer's Workshop

Series produced by New Hampshire Public Radio

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Patti Smith, Salman Rushdie, Judy Blume, and a wide variety of writers offer advice on living a creative life. You’ll get a quick glimpse of the rituals, distractions, and lessons they’ve learned from years of practice.

Whether you’re making art, making dinner, or making money, following ideas from hunch to fruition requires a strategy. A variety of writers share their rituals, guilty pleasures, and what’s helped them turn the urge to create into the discipline to do it.

10-Minute Writer's Workshop is a podcast hosted by Virginia Prescott and distributed by New Hampshire Public Radio. For more information, or to suggest future authors, contact Maureen McMurray at mmcmurray@nhpr.org

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19 Pieces

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#49 Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of V...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 11:04
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #18 - Chuck Klosterman
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From his philosophy on editing to the best advice for aspiring writers, Chuck Klosterman brings us into his creative process.

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #17 - Judy Blume
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Anyone who's ever been an awkward adolescent knows that for decades now, dog-eared copies of Judy Blume's books have been passed around school play...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #16 - Poet Donald Hall
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Donald Hall is now 87 and no longer writing poetry, a pursuit he calls "a young man's game" which takes "too much testosterone." But Hall, former P...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:57
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #15 - Helen Simonson
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The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - and bonafide Charming British Lady - Helen Simonson lets us in on her writing process, her...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:31
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #14 - Aaron Mahnke of Lore
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Aaron Mahnke is creator of the spooky folktale podcast Lore which quickly shot up the iTunes charts and landed him a television deal. He's also a n...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:36
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #13 - Richard Russo
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Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:41
Ten-Minute Writer's Workshop #12 - Joe Hill
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As a writer, Joe Hill's family name could have given him a leg up. Instead, he chose to create his own. In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer's W...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:19
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #11 - James McBride
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"Kill 'em and leave" was James Brown's commandment to his band before every show...it's also the title of a biography of the soul legend, the lates...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #10 - Partners in True Crime, Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie
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In this episode, married co-authors Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie. Together, they have written four true crime books, most recently Dark Heart: A Tr...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:13
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #9 - Alexander Chee
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Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unas...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 10:05
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #8 - Grace Helbig
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We spoke to YouTube superstar Grace Helbig after the publication of her second tongue-in-cheek guide, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #7 - Spiritual author, Marianne Williamson
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Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Holly...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:56
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #6 - Tom Perrotta
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Caption: Virginia sits on the floor to interview Tom Perrotta at Harvard Book Store., Credit: Sara Plourde
Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:45
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #5 - Megan Abbott
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Megan Abbott has been called "David Lynch for teenagers". Her 2014 novel "The Fever" landed on best books of the year lists from The School Library...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:38
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #4 - Christopher Buckley
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Satirist Christopher Buckley, author of "Thank You For Smoking", "The White House Mess", and "The Relic Master", takes us into his writing process.

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #3 - Alexander McCall Smith
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Caption: Virginia Prescott chats with Alexander McCall Smith backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, Credit: Sara Plourde
The prolific author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series talks about his writing process.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #2 - Patti Smith
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Series: 10-Minute Writer's Workshop
Caption: Patti Smith chatting with Virginia Prescott backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth
National Book Award winner Patti Smith, also known as "the godmother of punk", dishes on what inspires her writing, what her editing process entail...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:47
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #1 - Salman Rushdie
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: 10-Minute Writer's Workshop
Caption: Salman Rushdie and Virginia Prescott backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, Credit: Sara Plourde
Salman Rushdie is a Booker-Award-winning novelist and the prolific author of a number of non-fiction works, children's books, and essays. He joined...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:08

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