Guest post by Logan Lindabury

I love when an author reads from his or her work, and since Mockingjay is being released, I couldn’t help but notice this video of Suzanne Collins.

Don’t you love when an author does a video that talks about the book he or she has written? This is getting to be a very common thing, and I really enjoy it.

One of the most fascinating books I have read lately is The White Queen: A Novel (Cousins’ War) by Philippa Gregory.

I love to hear authors talk about their books and how they came to write them. In this video, Elizabeth Gilbert talks about the wildly popular Eat, Pray, Love.

When I tell someone I’m a writer, I always expect them to say, “What have you written?” or “Have you written anything I might have read?” That would be my first question if someone I didn’t recognize told me he or she was a writer. Instead, I usually hear about the person’s writing aspirations. It [...]

The brilliant Frank McCourt talks about poverty and writing at length about his upbringing. If you’ve never heard the beautiful Irish voice of Mr. McCourt, you are in for a treat. Imagine this same voice telling you a story of his childhood, and that is Angela’s Ashes. Enjoy this short video.

When you think of a comedy group like Monty Python, you think of funny laughs and easy humor. You don’t often think of the writing that went behind it, which is a tribute naturally to the very people that wrote their stuff! In this video, Eric Idle talks about writing with the rest of the [...]

Bloggers of all levels can learn a great deal from the “Become a Blogger” series of videos by Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak. (We interviewed Yaro here on Working Writers recently, so if you didn’t catch the post, please take a moment and read through it. I think you’ll be surprised by some of the [...]

I can attest that writing made a huge difference in my childhood. Writing helped me process information and understand a very difficult upbringing. Amy Tan talks about how writing influenced her own childhood. Amy’s childhood is very different from mine, and her humor will tell all you need to know.