First Draft Episode #168: Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, winner of the 2018 Printz Award, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to You and Hold Still, joins me to talk about how she’s expanding her teaching role with The Slow Novel Lab, and an exciting new podcast venture called Keeping a Notebook.
LINKS AND TOPICS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Lorde’s album Pure Heroine
Nina’s parents were strict with what she watch growing up so she watched movies by Alfred Hitchcock, film director of the critically acclaimed The Birds, Rear Window and Psycho
The Castle of Otranto, a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the beginning of Gothic Literature
Virginia Woolf, author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, because her characters are holding so tightly to themselves
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is referenced in Nina’s works and she loves that it is very psychological rather than Gothic
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, is very atmospheric which Nina enjoys
Frida Kahlo (Artist)
Keeping a Notebook, a podcast on writing by Nina LaCour named after “On Keeping a Notebook” by Joan Didion (and the episode featuring Sarah Enni)
The Slow Novel Lab, classes taught by Nina on how to breakthrough the heart of your novel
Sara Zarr’s podcast This Creative Life
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and Save the Cat are writing resources
Rebuilt her website using SquareSpace and helped her integrate the new functions for it
Nina uses MailChimp to send out newsletters about her writing exercises
Nina’s short story in the Foreshadow YA online YA anthology collection
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