Write a Book - Throw it Away! - John Nichols - A Writer's Life 1

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

"I'm not a natural writer; I can't think things out things before hand. So,I just rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. And sometimes things work out." I like that

[@GordieEggleston]

I always think it's cool when characters I am writing begin taking over their own life in a story I'm writing, surprising me by what they do or say. The stories when that happens are the best... when the characters become real and things happen that I did not even foresee when I began writing their story.

[@esra_erimez]

I was going to me that same comment myself!

[@guerinoboscariol2881]

@@GordieEggleston 3

[@iainholmes2735]

So glad I chanced upon this. Such dedication and persistence.

[@Lhlhlhlhlb]

SAMEEEEE

[@Lhlhlhlhlb]

This man is amazing

[@nej6704]

As a writer I am amazed at this man's gift and tenacity as well as the sheer amount of work put in to one novel! Thank god for computers!

[@anthonyt1t5]

I love this man's work ethic. I love to keep physical manuscripts as well. I don't nearly have as much as him tho. Not even close..but I aspire to. It makes you feel like you've done something spiritually productive for yourself and your passion. My dream is to have a closet or a room full of my drafts. Lol weird yes but somehow I love the idea

[@tasneemalahmadi3998]

great to see that there are still some writers who treat their books like they are their best friends and they cannot give away or mistreat them for any reason ...

[@Arkadina]

tasneem alahmadi And the way he hugged his typewriter 😍

[@hafeez3103]

I'm amazed. The number of manuscripts, and drafts in his storage is mindboggling.... Whoa!!!

[@Ichithix]

What it must feel like to see all your life's work laid out in front of you like that.

[@Bookspine5]

The Wizard of Loneliness sounds interesting.

[@havesomecoffeeand6085]

Those unpublished define not your failure, but define the success you wrote.

[@telugufilmupdates22]

i really like that he love to write....weather it published or not......

[@gavinwhyte941]

This is priceless.

[@fascinatinglist9654]

I just worry about anything happening to his manuscripts, God forbid a fire or anything.

[@holistic7980]

For u

[@a_noelles]

This video makes me smile! Nearly eight years it was posted. Thanks for sharing.

[@lotusr9467]

How can a human be this humble?

[@sijoalex5951]

We need more people like this

[@holistic7980]

No u do

[@fluffystaley7339]

Writing means knowing when your story doesn't work and you must move on.

[@technicalartchannel1354]

it is a great time to see the best practical world of permanent knowledge,recycle, and daily use.

[@mikesmyth8515]

Early on he tells about the boy leading the grandfather up into the mountains to die, because the old man can't get to the happy hunting grounds by himself. The too short video ends with The Milagro Beanfield War. The next novel he published, the first I read, was The Magic Journey and the death scene of the old Indian lawyer beneath the sacred tree in winter gives me chills writing about it, forty years later. That scene seems to have its roots in the boy taking grandfather to the mountains. So it's really cool to see glimmers of the origins of a passage, in a book, that I told countless people to read. That was the greatest and most moving death I've read, still true forty years on. If climate change worries you, if you love the earth and ancient peoples' connections to it, read The Magic Journey.

[@Pimp-Master]

Thanks for the upload. I sure love the novel, "The Sterile Cuckoo," and it's neat to see his dedication to those characters. The movie has nothing on the book, which is unforgettable and reads like a warm diary.

[@roser6047]

Fantastic. Love it

[@Dude408f]

Great guy. I read milagro beanfield war and loved it

[@shalinhai-jew4191]

Perhaps these can be digitized and preserved online.

[@esra_erimez]

I'd love to know what he thinks happened to Pookie Adams after the novel.

[@TunezCottage]

Imagine writing so many books you can't even find some of them... Crazy

[@rustcohle3803]

Sounds like an interesting guy

[@UrbaNSpiel]

Cool

[@tcdrx]

Writers write. If you are not writing you are not a writer.

[@milesknightestrada3286]

If you can't get it done in one draft, you're no writer.

[@San-li9ml]

Every great novel had multiple drafts, you can't get everything right first try