The videos are short, around fifteen minutes long each, and she gives little exercises at the end of each lesson. Harris was a teacher before she became a full time writer and it shows in her calm demeanor and thoughtful, coherent advice. In the meantime, if you want to get a sneak peak of what the book has to offer, Harris has made a series of ten little videos on her YouTube page called “Ten Things About Writing” where she gives little lessons. While it doesn’t come out in hardback until December, it is currently available in e-book form. It is published through September Publishing, a deliberate move on her part in order to help out a small press in this difficult time. It is a collection of lists on writing, agents, publishing, and everything in between.
Now Harris is compiling those tweets into a single volume called Ten Things About Writing. Neil Gaiman calls them “ tiny islands of sensibleness and wisdom”. One of these new ways is Twitter, and six years ago Harris started doing #TenTweets which is a series of ten tweets on writing. Online or off, and in all genres, the passion for writing continues to spread, and with the new opportunities offered by the internet, writers now have many new ways in which to reach their audience. But what never seems to change is the number of people who want to write.
Changes in the industry the rise of digital publishing the changes in our reading habits and our interactions with readers. She has been a full-time writer for over twenty years and she says that during that time she:
She has written thrillers, gothic horror, and myth-based fantasy.
Harris is best known for her novel Chocolat which was made into a movie in 2000, but she has over twenty-five books published in various genres. For the past few months, bestselling novelist Joanne Harris has been giving free virtual lessons from the privacy of her cozy writing shed.
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