Replay: Grant Faulkner shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing With Vulnerability
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“The urge to be a writer is a generous act at its core, after all: we want to share our story with others, to give them a world that will open doors to insights and flights of the imagination. I hope this class will help you embrace your vulnerability and tell your truth the way you want to tell it."
– Grant Faulkner, Five Things He's Learned about Writing With Vulnerability
Last Sunday, Grant returned to host his new class Five Things I’ve Learned about Writing With Vulnerability, which explores the idea that writing with vulnerability is more crucial than any other approach to the craft. He explains why, in fact, it is through openness that writers best create compelling stories that profoundly connect with their readers. Grant shares challenges he's discovered from his own writing life and from his working with others about revealing one's true self in writing. He also offers practical exercises he's found very much help writers overcome fears, confront difficult truths, and develop the courage to share their stories authentically.
Grant is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has published three books on writing, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo, Brave the Page, a teen writing guide, and his latest book, The Art of Brevity.
He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, a collection of short stories, Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and Best Small Fictions. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He serves on the National Writing Project’s Writer’s Council, Lit Camp’s Advisory Council, and Aspen Words’ Creative Council. He’s also the co-host of the podcast Write-minded.
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