Episode 60 – interview with David Baboulene – author, academic & story consultant

‘I find inspiration but analyse the inspiration to speed up the process’

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Episode 60 – David Baboulene – Show Notes

• Type of writing depending on mood and deadline
• Both a plotter and a pantser – wearing two hats
• Successful writers are very productive
• Writers being hermits
• Winning a competition but having an unsatisfying experience with a Hollywood guru
• Explaining the story craft without telling the writer what to do
• Storification – what jumps off the page and lives in the reader’s mind e.g a moral message in a fairy tale
• The author doesn’t need to know the ending half as much as they need to know how the story storifies. Then you can work backwards.
• Encoding knowledge gaps which are decoded by the receiver (the reader) as meaning
• Leaving gaps makes the reader create meaning in their own mind – puzzles for the reader to do the work
• PG Wodehouse – books released after his death
• The Primary Colours of Story coming out in 2019

‘He’d been rubbish but he became a genius because he worked’

Links

• David Baboulene’s website
• David on Twitter

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