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Thoughtful Thursday

Posted on December 8, 2022December 8, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 143

In this week’s #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares an excerpt from Edna Lewis’s ‘The Taste of Country Cooking.’
Posted on December 1, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 142

In this week’s #ThoughtfulThursday Alex shares an excerpt from Anthony Bourdain’s bestselling memoir ‘Kitchen Confidential.’ 
Posted on November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 141

Happy Thanksgiving from Gotham! This week’s #ThoughtfulThursday features Samantha Irby’s essay, “How to Host Thanksgiving When You Don’t Even Have a Table.” 

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An interesting way to think about transitions in your writing (whether it be transitioning between scenes in a script, a novel, a short story...) from playwright Tom Stoppard. #mondaymotivation ... See MoreSee Less

An interesting way to think about transitions in your writing (whether it be transitioning between scenes in a script, a novel, a short story...) from playwright Tom Stoppard. #MondayMotivation
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This guy is awesome! <3 He wrote an amazing absurdist play called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" in the mid-1960s & then a few decades later he wrote & directed the cinematic version of this play, too! www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Anyone who writes—anything—will fly further fa Anyone who writes—anything—will fly further farther with a secure understanding of grammar. Check out the link in our bio to learn more about Gotham's upcoming Grammar Intensives. ✍️✨
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There are countless magazines, newspapers, and web There are countless magazines, newspapers, and websites that need a continual supply of short nonfiction pieces—articles, essays, etc. And they need material on every subject under the sun. . . Follow the link in our bio to enroll and learn how to set your writing apart and get it out in the world! ✍️ 🙌
If you've been waiting for a sign to start that st If you've been waiting for a sign to start that story (or script or poem or song...) you've been thinking about, this is it from Steven Spielberg himself! #MondayMotivation
The best games have rich, well-rounded characters, The best games have rich, well-rounded characters, a compelling plot and a fully realized setting... and you can learn how to bring all of these to life and more at one of our online Video Game Writing Intensives! Check out the link in our bio for more info.
A good reminder to start your week from iconic scr A good reminder to start your week from iconic screenwriter and director George Lucas. #MondayMotivation
Gain an introduction to writing for movies, TV, an Gain an introduction to writing for movies, TV, and plays, and learn techniques fundamental to all forms of scriptwriting in our upcoming Writing Scripts 101 class. It’s a sampler platter, with no pressure to work on a specific project or settle on which type of scriptwriting you prefer. Check out the link in our bio to get started. ✍️✨🎬🎭
Start your week off right with some powerful words Start your week off right with some powerful words from the fantastic director and writer, Ava DuVernay. #MondayMotivation
One way to know you're a writer is longing to spen One way to know you're a writer is longing to spend time writing but finding it hard to carve out time and stick to a routine. Our class Just Write is designed to help with exactly that – to provide a place every week where you can just... write! . . Check out the link in our bio to learn more and enroll in our upcoming session starting January 10th. ✍️✨
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This week's #ThoughtfulThursday comes from Patrici This week's #ThoughtfulThursday comes from Patricia Twomey Ryan's short memoir piece 'Oatmeal'.
We couldn't imagine a more powerful or inspiring q We couldn't imagine a more powerful or inspiring quote to end the year on than this message from the great science fiction and fantasy writer N.K. Jemisin! #MondayMotivation
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In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares a In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares a passage from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel 'The Mistress of Spices.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the gre This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the great speculative fiction writer and essayist Ursula K. Le Guin. This observation is lifted from her interview in The Paris Review, the entire quote reads: “A very good book tells me news, tells me things I didn’t know, or didn’t know I knew, yet I recognize them–yes, I see, this is how the world is. Fiction–and poetry and drama–cleans the doors of perception.” It is fascinating how much of the real world we can glean from invented/fictional worlds. Even the kind of lofty science fiction that Le Guin is known for has been lauded as great commentary on our world’s understanding of gender, politics, the environment, etc. We hope that Le Guin’s words inspire you to try and express these kinds of truths in your own writing this week–whether it’s fiction you write or not.
In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares an In this week's #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares an excerpt from Edna Lewis's 'The Taste of Country Cooking.'
This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the nov This week’s #MondayMotivation comes from the novelist and short fiction writer Ling Ma in her interview with Electric Literature back in September. The influence of dreams on fiction is always an interesting topic for us at Gotham. We even devote a lecture to it in some of our advanced short fiction classes. For our fiction writers out there: do you draw inspiration from your own dreams? Do you dream something and turn it into a story, or perhaps try to mimic the whimsy and weirdness that dreams have to offer in your plots or your characters? Ling Ma is the author of the speculative fiction novel Severance and the short fiction collection Bliss Montage, which was named a Best Book of the Year this year by The New Yorker. We hope that Ma’s words inspire your own writing practice this week.
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