Margaret Duarte

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Amy Tan on creativity | Video on TED.com

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Taking a cue from Jane Friedman’s “3 Happy Things” (Inspiring Videos on Facebook), I’ll share a TED video I keep going back to.

Warning:  You may get hooked on TED after viewing this wonderful talk by Amy Tan (and if that doesn’t do it, check out the video with JK Rowling that I shared in a previous post).

Here, novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.

You’ll love it, I guarantee, no matter what your creative preference.

Amy Tan on creativity.

Books by Amy Tan

  • China Dolls
  • Saving Fish From Drowning
  • Joy Luck Club
  • The Opposite of Faith: Memories of a Writing Life

As always, thanks for stopping by,

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.