Panel: Real Toads
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
20-3-1986 12:00 PM
End Date
20-3-1986 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 20, 1986, as part of the 17th Annual UND Writers Conference: “To Make a Prairie,” Jay McInerney, John Yount, and Robert Ward participate in a panel called “Real Toads.” The panelists discuss autobiography in fiction, writing from experience, outlining versus freewriting, the importance for a writer to detach him or herself from autobiography, pursuit of original voice and the educational value of imitation, negative criticism, working with editors and publishers, sentimentality, and emotional connection to characters.
Panel: Real Toads
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 20, 1986, as part of the 17th Annual UND Writers Conference: “To Make a Prairie,” Jay McInerney, John Yount, and Robert Ward participate in a panel called “Real Toads.” The panelists discuss autobiography in fiction, writing from experience, outlining versus freewriting, the importance for a writer to detach him or herself from autobiography, pursuit of original voice and the educational value of imitation, negative criticism, working with editors and publishers, sentimentality, and emotional connection to characters.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1986/day3/3
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.