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Rebecca Skloot Talks About How Fried Green Tomatoes and The Hurricane Helped Her Find the Structure of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

@calebhannan sent me this video, and it’s got some of my favorite stuff in there: Skloot was trying to find a structure for her multi-narrative book, so she wrote the different plots out on color-coded index cards, laid them all out where she could look at them, and then went hunting for stories with multi-threaded narratives that she could borrow from. She ended up storyboarding the story lines from the film The Hurricane on the same color-coded index cards, and then laying out her book material over the movie’s structure. Fascinating!

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   Audio Thursday Video Sunday Rebecca Skloot Talks About How Fried Green Tomatoes and The Hurricane Helped Her Find the...

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    I love writer process pieces.

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    nonfiction writers. There, I’ve said it.

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    I got to meet and talk to...last year, when she came to

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    The work really paid off, too. The book is ah-may-zing.

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    Love Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Great video about how she figured out the structure.

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