Carter Wilson's Making It Up
Making It Up is an unscripted conversation series about the messy reality of being a writer.
Each episode is a deep, unplanned conversation with writers at every stage of the journey. New York Times bestselling authors. Award winners. Debut novelists just getting started. No prepared questions. No talking points. Just two people following the conversation wherever it leads.
We talk about where stories really come from. Childhood influences. Fear. Luck. Loss. Discipline. Doubt. The highs, the lows, and the long stretches in between that rarely get talked about.
At the end of every episode, we put the philosophy into practice. We choose a random sentence from a random book and use it to create an impromptu short story. No prep. No outline. Just making something out of nothing.
Because that is the job.
And that is the point.
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Carter Wilson's Making It Up
Making It Up with Erica Wright, author of Hollow Bones
Erica Wright is the author of eight novels, including her newest novel Hollow Bones, a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Her essay collection Snake was released as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Her mystery Famous in Cedarville received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She is the author of five other books, including a couple poetry collections. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She was the senior poetry editor at Guernica Magazine for more than a decade and currently teaches at Bellevue University.
Among other things, Erica and Carter discuss the appeal of a small-town setting for thriller novels, the selflessness of the writing community, and Erica’s background in writing poetry. At the end of their conversation, they make up a twisted story using a line from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.