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This week, Angie and Elizabeth chatted with Laurie Ann Doyle about her process transitioning from writing short stories to writing her first novel. From doing research, to choosing the right words, both short and long stories are all about crafting a narrative. They focus on one of Laurie’s stories Or Best Offer from World Gone Missing, a collection of short stories with the theme of people going missing. Angie and Elizabeth asked if the theme came first, Laurie believes that the theme should evolve naturally, and that people can disappear in more ways than one.
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Laurie Ann Doyle
Laurie Ann Doyle is the author of the book WORLD GONE MISSING, praised by New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki for delivering “powerful portrayals of people desiring connection, hope, and renewal,” and named a top book pick by the East Bay Express. Winner of the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee, Laurie’s stories and personal essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Timber, Jabberwock Review, Under the Sun, and many other literary journals. She co-founded the long running literary series Babylon Salon and teaches writing at the San Francisco Writers Grotto and UC Berkeley. Find her online at www.laurieanndoyle.com
Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.
The hosts:
Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.
Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.