How do you keep yourself motivated with each project you’re taking on? What patterns or processes do you have to launch you into creating new work? How do you motivate yourself past by one, five, 10, 15 and even 20 false starts? How do you motivate yourself to get it done after those failed beginnings?
Today, one of my favorite writer, Edwidge Danticat joins on the show to talk about how she became a writer. As an aside as a young Haitian girl, reading Edwidge’s book inspired me to start thinking that I could be a creator.
Edwidge will share her artistic process-I know! I’m excited for you to listen as well!
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, Claire of the Sea Light, as well as The Art of Death, and Brother, I'm Dying, a National Books Critics Circle winner.
She is a two time winner of The Story Prize and a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2020 winner of the Vilceck Prize.
Her most recent book, Everything Inside: Stories, is a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction Prize. She is a Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Stay in touch with Edwidge Danticat: http://www.edwidgedanticatsociety.org/
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This is How We Create is produced and edited by Martine Severin
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