First Draft Episode #77: Leila Howland
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Leila Howland, author of NANTUCKET BLUE, THE FORGET-ME-NOT SUMMER, and its sequel THE BRIGHTEST STARS OF SUMMER (and the forthcoming HELLO, SUNSHINE, due out next summer!), talks writing hiatus, learning structure from screenwriting, and finding inspiration in well-intentioned missteps.
Leila Howland Show Notes
STUART LITTLE by E.B. White
A LITTLE PRINCESS and THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
HEIDI by Johanna Spyri
THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame
Young Frankenstein (movie)
Sara Crowe (agent)
SAVE THE CAT by Blake Snyder
10 Cloverfield Lane (movie)
The Godfather (movie)
THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LAUNDAU BANKS by E. Lockhart
Lost It by Kristin Tracy
Bridesmaids (movie)
Elin Hilderbrand (author)
Josephine Angelini (author)
Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper on Mad Men, TV show)
HELLO SUNSHINE, forthcoming book from Leila
Kayla Cagan (author)
SUMMER IN THE INVISIBLE CITY by Juliana Romano (Leila’s review for her debut book, FIRST THERE WAS FOREVER)
Robert Hass: “Take the time to write. You can do your life’s work in half an hour a day.”