The Time is Right: Living A Creative Life

John Davis, Kevin Fellows

Conversations about living a creative life. Whether you're a musician, writer, artist, knitter, or gardener, life is better when you make time for creative expression. read less
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Episode 11: Interview with Author & Translator Kristin Osani
Apr 22 2022
Episode 11: Interview with Author & Translator Kristin Osani
Kristin Osani is a queer writer who lives in Kyoto, Japan where she works as a freelance Japanese-to-English video game translator when she’s not wordsmithing, working on nerdy cross-stitching, or cuddling her two cats (three if you include her husband). Her fiction has appeared in FlashPoint SF, the Arcanist, and Ghost Orchid Press’s Beyond the Veil: Supernatural Tales of Queer Love anthology. Kristin's website is https://www.kristinosani.com/ Kristin shared her experience with creativity through her work as a video-game translator, her writing, cross-stitching, and drawing. Kristin's creative resources: For writers struggling to create protagonists well: The Protagonist Problem. Brandon Sanderson's Creative Writing Lectures on Youtube Ellen Brock's YouTube channel Writing Excuses Podcast Save the Cat!, by Blake Snyder Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing, by Libbie Hawker The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface, by Donald Maas Wonderbook: the Illustrated Guide to Creating Fiction, by Jeff VanderMeer The Nebula Conference is a great place for SFF writers to connect and learn. John suggested The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music, by W. A. Mathieu Kevin mentioned** the book The Lady from the Black Lagoon, by Mallory O'Meara **Actually, Kevin mis-titled the book repeatedly in the episode. That's what happens when you don't look at your notes. 🙄 Apologies to Mallory O'Meara.