Tweets from Day Five of Open Book 2015
14 Sep 2015
We’ll be rounding up some of the tweets from the talks at the Open Book Festival 2015 featuring PEN SA members.
As you can see from the Open Book programme, there is plenty going on. These tweets are just a glimpse at some of the conversations taking place over the five day festival. For more, take a look at #OBF2015 and read Books LIVE’s round-ups: “Blood on the Land”, “Where I’m From: Language and Geography” and “Sex and the Citadel” and “To Quote Myself”, “The Hormone Factory” and “Musing on Loss”; “Limited Space”, “Chants of Freedom”, “Pop the Culture”, “So Hot Right Now” and “Hand Me the Mic”.
PEN SA members speaking on the second day included Beverly Rycroft, Dawn Garisch and Karina Szczurek.
Musing on Loss
Helen Macdonald, S J Naudé and Beverly Rycroft (PEN SA member) discussed responses to loss in their books with Dawn Garisch (PEN SA member). Helené Prinsloo from Books LIVE attended the event:
First session for the morning: @HelenJMacdonald, Fanie Naudé, Dawn Garisch and Beverly Rycroft on LOSS #OBF2015 pic.twitter.com/HGkSA42hlG
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
Beverly Rycroft wrote about grief in a different way, as means of noting an experience of death and answering a sense of loneliness #OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
Does anything go lost in writing about loss in fiction? Beverly Rycroft says no, it was absolutely liberating #OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
Limited Space
Melissa de Villiers, Karen Joy Fowler and SJ Naudé discussed character development in short fiction with Karina Szczurek (PEN SA member). Helené Prinsloo and Jennifer Malec from Books LIVE attended the event:
.@KarinaMSzczurek talking Limited Space with Karen Joy Fowler, Melissa de Villiers & SJ Naudé #OBF2015 pic.twitter.com/q9vgq4a3rl
— Jennifer Malecówna (@projectjennifer) September 13, 2015
.@KarinaMSzczurek asks a great q@ How do you know a story is going to be a shorter one, and not a novel?#OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
Early in Karen Joy Fowler's career there'd be no telling if it'd be long or short stories, however now she knows before starting #OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
Writers are very strange creatures, most people don't have characters in their heads asking to be let out – @KarinaMSzczurek #OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
How do characters come into being? @KarinaMSzczurek refers to @Sapartridge who writes little bios for each char, to know them #OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015
My characters do not resist me, they do not assist me. I have to do everything for them – Karen Joy Fowler #OBF2015
— Helené Prinsloo (@helenayp) September 13, 2015