Jane Yolen returns for Season 2 Episode 6. This is Part Two of our two part discussion. In this segment we spend our time discussing the writing craft, and get some amazing practical insights and inside information.

Jane is a prolific writer who has written books for children and adults. She's known for her fairy tales, the "How Do Dinosaurs..." series, The Devil's Arithmetic, Owl Moon, A Plague of Unicorns (Due out this December), and author of over 325 more books: http://bit.ly/YolenBooks 

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Discussion Topics:

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• Jane's secret writing process: BIC
  
• Being present and ready for the muse to show up.
  
• Jane describes her muse, down to her Birkenstocks, dress and outdated beret.
  
• Writing the piece first and then finding the audience.
  
• Writing to please yourself and your inner child.
  
• Different forms of story and the interstitial arts.
  
• It's in the doing, trying, and failing that you become a storyteller.
  
• Putting on the Golden Jane Yolen cloak: The Writer and the one who writes.
  
• Winning over unlikely groups through story.
  
• Whispering in your own ear.
  
• The story behind "The Lady and the Merman".
  
• Jane proves that don't have to say the word for us all to know the one you mean.
  
• When your story means something to someone else, it's no longer yours alone.
  
• George Lucas, and his decision to "vanish" the original version of Star Wars.
  
• How to triage your work and why it's OK to have more than one project open.
  
• The privilege of carting home a drunken writer.
  
• How Jane met Neil Gaiman, and why she thought he was "adorable."
  
• How to handle meeting your favorite author.
  
• The writer's "Letter to the World" and waiting for the reply.
  
• The secret about most artists.
  

People mentioned: Terri Windling, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Midori Snyder, Neil Gaiman, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, George R. R. Martin, Ron Perlman, J. K. Rowling, George Lucas, Alice Hoffman, William Butler Yeats, Isak Dinesen, Emily Dickinson, James Thurber, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander

Works to enjoy:

"The Lady and the Merman", by Jane Yolen
Brer Rabbit: "Sheer Crop"
Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Game of Thrones (Novels, TV)
Rainbow Rider, by Jane Yolen

Visit Jane online at www.janeyolen.com | Twitter: @janeyolen

Sign up to get a poem a day from Jane at: janeyolen@aol.com

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