Ruta Sepetys, YOU: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Julie Chavez interviews #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys about her nonfiction debut, a powerful how-to book for aspiring writers, You: The Story: A Writer’s Guide to Craft Through Memory. Ruta reveals what inspired her to write this guide (and why she felt so vulnerable recording her own audiobook). The two then talk about stories: how everybody has them and what it takes to put them on paper–revisiting memories, reframing perspectives and regret, finding our authentic voice, writing to comprehend (not condemn), being open to criticism, and lots of revisions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 1:03.2 | Rydis Sepedis is the author of you, The Story, a writer's guide to craft through memory, |
| 1:08.3 | guest hosted by Julie Chavez, author of Everyone but Myself, |
| 1:11.6 | which comes out in January of 2024 from Zibi Books and the host of Ask a Library in the podcast. |
| 1:18.1 | Ruda Sopetas was actually on this podcast already, and I had the pleasure of interviewing her |
| 1:22.1 | already, so Julie took it this time. |
| 1:24.0 | Ruda is an internationally acclaimed number one New York Times best-selling author of historical fiction published in over 60 countries and 40 languages. Sipatis is considered |
| 1:32.8 | a crossover novelists as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide. Winner of |
| 1:38.4 | the Carnegie Medal. Ruda is renowned for giving voice to underrepresented history and those |
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