#063: Josh Malerman – Definition of an artist, the power of “the end,” and what it means to be a Prolific.

Activated Authors

English - November 27, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Previous Episode: #062: Lucinda E Clark – Living a life worth writing, lessons learned from writing, and falling into what’s right.

Next Episode: #064: Alesha Escobar – Learning from collaboration, writing diverse characters, & learning through fiction.

Josh Malerman is a New York Times bestselling author and also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song “The Luck You Got” can be heard as the theme song to the Showtime show “Shameless.”

His critically acclaimed novel, Bird Box has been adapted into a Netflix feature film starring Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich, and Sarah Paulson and was also nominated for the Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the James Herbert Award. The sequel novel, Malorie, was released earlier this year to roaring success, and his books Black Mad Wheel and Goblin have also been nominated for Stoker Awards.

In this episode we go deep into:

What it is to be an artist in today’s world
The power of writing “the end” on your first novel
Josh’s early writing journey
How rough drafts can perform their own magic
Pacing yourself on larger projects
Experimenting with form and process
How consistency can aid the early writer
The different kinds of re-writes
What it means to be a Prolific
How the act of writing is its own optimism
Remaining humble under global attention
Helping others along their journey
Equality amongst artists
Keeping the momentum of a story alive for fourteen years
Giving books for free and earning karma
Why Josh writes

Josh answers questions from Patrons:

Faye Trask: How much say did you have when it came to turning Birdbox into a movie? Did you get to do anything neat like meet the actors or visit the set?

Find out more about Josh:

https://joshmalerman.com/

https://www.instagram.com/joshmalerman/

https://twitter.com/joshmalerman/

https://www.facebook.com/JoshMalerman/

Links from the show:

https://www.danielwillcocks.com

Josh Malerman’s This Is Horror interview: https://pod.link/599755380/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhpc2lzaG9ycm9yLmNvLnVrLz9wPTMxNTk3

Malerman’s “Goblin”: https://books2read.com/u/b6Kvq0

Malerman’s “Malorie”: https://books2read.com/u/me79aV

Malerman’s “Bird Box”: https://books2read.com/u/mKywq5

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