Discovering my love of words | Jacqueline Woodson

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🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jacqueline Woodson writes books to be savored. She is best known for her memoir "Brown Girl Dreaming" along with her works "After Tupac and D Foster," "Feathers" and "Show Way." Her accolades include the MacArthur "Genius Grant" and the National Book Award. In this excerpt of a conversation she had with Debbie Millman on the podcast Design Matters, Jacqueline talks about how she discovered her deep love of reading and writing and how she went from struggling with words as a child to becoming an illustrious writer as an adult. This episode is part of the TED Talks Daily summer book club, a series featuring talks and interviews to inspire your next great read.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily, and today for our summer book club
0:08.5	series, A Look at the Other Side of the Equation, from the writers' point of view.
0:13.6	We're playing a 2021 episode of Design Matters that's all about writing.
0:18.4	Host Debbie Millman talks with author Jacqueline Woodson about becoming a writer, how she developed
0:23.0	the stories we now know and love, like last summer with Mason, and why there needs to
0:28.1	be more diversity in publishing.
0:58.1	To what I write, to tell me how to write it.
1:08.6	Thank you to EttiHod Airways for sponsoring today's episode.
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1:21.2	They were recently awarded Environmental Airline of the Year for 2022 and have launched a dedicated
1:25.9	sustainability focus corporate program designed to facilitate and deliver corporate partner
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1:37.6	As a child, Jacqueline Woodson loved to tell lies.
1:40.9	There was something about seeing her friend's eyes grow wide with wonder that she loved.
1:46.8	She got into trouble for lying, but didn't stop until 5th grade.
1:51.5	At same year, she wrote a story, and her 5th grade teacher said, this is really good.
1:57.3	That was when Jacqueline Woodson understood that a lie on the page was called fiction, and
2:02.5	that could win you accolades and awards.
2:05.4	Flash forward a few decades and many stories later, and she is indeed won many, many accolades
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