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Episode 2.4: Persistence with Cat Rambo

Mad Writers Union

English - March 17, 2017 20:03 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Most working writers agree that there is one quality above all needed to make it in the business: persistence. The Mad Writers invited the legendary Cat Rambo over to talk persistence and writing. From her days at Johns Hopkins through to keeping up writing a short story a week after Clarion West and all the way to her days working in SFWA. Cat Rambo is a writer, teacher, SFWA president and previously secretary. Generous in her encouragement of new writers and brilliant in her turn of prose, she can be found at catrambo.com


Recommended reading:

Cat's recommendation: Lovecraft Country: A Novel by Matt Ruff


Tim's recommendation: Definitely Maybe (Neversink) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky


Jay's recommendation: The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J Peterson


Nina's recommendation: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye


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Intro and outro music comes from “Cephalopod” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0