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I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'
Andrea Seigel / Novelist
Advise
Mars
Veronica
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From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.
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Lauren
Luke
Watched
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I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.
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Forgetting
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I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.
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Bulldog
Dreamed
Heroine
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Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
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Decisions
Fallible
Personalities
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I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.
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Anxious
Homework
Worried
Count
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I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.
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Makeup
Salespeople
No Interest
Stresses
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Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
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Shorthand
Planned
Pressures
Suburban
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Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
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Responsibilities
Teenagers
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If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.
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Immaculate
Patient
Recognition
Villain
Franchise
Housewives
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What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.
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Being Yourself
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For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.
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Heroism
Reality
Reality Tv
Spectrum
Villainy
Tv
Aspects
Beautiful Most Beautiful Me
Freely
Most Beautiful
Rewarding
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One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.
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Wisdom
Solitude
Thinking
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'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.
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Jersey
New Jersey
Physics
Demonstrations
Housewives
Textbook
Vacuum
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Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.
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Hamper
Louis
Crammed
Resource
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I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.
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Goddess
Grey
Inner
Shades
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I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.
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Real World
Life World My Life
Version
Drawn
Initially
The Real World
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I've always believed that if you're truly in love with someone, you shouldn't be able to answer the question 'What do you love about him?' with any kind of real satisfaction.
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Able
Answers
Real
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I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.
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Conceptual
Me Start Feel
Develop
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My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.
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Apologetic
Characterization
Guilty
Ironic
Plot
Reality Tv
Modes
Permitted
Remaining
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I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.
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Pet
Animal
Ill
Never Say Never
Point Of View
Someday
Mentally
Appealing
Narrator
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Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original enterprise were some pristine experiment that got sullied as the conditions in the lab got sloppier.
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Adamant
Conditions
Enterprise
Pristine
Real World
Viewers
World Real Real World
Deteriorated
Experiment
Lab
The Real World
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Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
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Criticism
Mtv
Real World
Teens
Viewers
Alongside
Devolved
Existed
Lesser
The Real World
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TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.
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Antithesis
Productivity
Tired
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Viewers make online requests to their favorite video-making whisperers to do the things that trigger their head tingles. Everyone's needs are different. It's like an interactive choose-your-own-adventure.
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Interactive
Online
Viewers
Requests
Trigger
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As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
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Comforter
Real World
Thorough
Audition
Failed
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I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.
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Contemporary
Electricity
Sense Of Humor
Lean
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I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.
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Concealed
Homework
Lunch
Math
Socializing
Tired
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When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.
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Reinvention
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There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.
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Real
Romance
Rose
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I watched the first episode of 'Survivor' in the spring of 2000, thinking I would hate it. My natural inclination steers me toward the indoors not only in my actual life but also in the settings of the entertainment I read and watch.
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Inclination
Settings
Spring
Actual
Watched
Episode
Indoors
Natural Inclination
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Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.
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Boundaries
Longing
Romance
Stable
Structure
Community Me Way
Inner
Planned
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Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.
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Allowing
Narrative
Obvious
Upstairs
Alternative
Character May People
Failed
Main
Main Character
Modes
Popular
Page
Pilot
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I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.
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Feminine
Teenage
Time Me Feel
Hard Time
Psychologically
Relating
Teenage Girls
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I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.
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Fifth
Hated
Librarian
Pages
Quiet
Snow
Globe
Grade
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The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
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Computer
Delivering
First Time
Heard
Lines
Little Bit
Loud
Mind Blowing
Strange
Surreal
Life Time Moment
Gigantic
Just A Little Bit
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The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.
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Vacation
Compatible
Mindset
Visiting
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As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.
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Intricate
Jewelry
Shopping
Detailed
Network
Old Enough
Precious
Talked
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