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 Podcasts on Bajacaliforniana, esoterica, Maximiliana, works by C.M. Mayo, and on creative writing Listen in anytime on podomatic or iTunes (Please note that iTunes receives the RSS feed from podomatic but only up to 15 podcasts; therefore some of the older podcasts may not appear on iTunes) |
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Tips to Help You Get the Most from Your Writing WorkshopC.M. Mayo offers tips based on more years than she would like to admit of taking and teaching writing workshops. |
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| Conversations
with Other Writers: Sara Mansfield Taber As part of the series of occasional conversations with other writers, C.M. Mayo talks with Sara Mansfield Taber, author of the memoir Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter. For Taber, growing up in Taiwan, Japan, Washington DC, the Netherlands, and Borneo was tough as well as exotic, and she found the experience even more unsettling because, as she learned at fifteen, she was the daughter of a covert CIA agent. In this lyrical memoir, Taber captures the painful journey as she-- and her adored father-- struggle to understand who they are and what it means to be an American. The conversation ranges from her father's work in Asia, including his daring rescue of over a thousand Vietnamese after the fall of Vietnam to the Vietcong, and his disenchantment with the agency while working in Germany; Taber's childhood in Taiwan, highschool years in Washington DC during the Vietnam War; her previous books, including, Bread of Three Rivers and Dusk on the Campo; other travel writers, reading as a writer; writing practice, and teaching writing. Visit Sara Taber at www.sarataber.com |
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| How
to Break a Writing Block C.M. Mayo on the power on the five minute writing exercise. The end of this podcast offers an exercise— so get out your pen and paper. (For more exercises, visit "Giant Golden Buddha & 364 More 5 Minute Writing Exercises.) *About 11 minutes. Please note that on iTunes the timing is only 7 minutes, so if you're doing the writing exercise, best to listen on podomatic (the button to the left). |
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| Techniques
of Fiction: The Number One Technique in the Supersonic Overview From C.M. Mayo's "Techniques of Fiction" workshop: the number one technique. An explanation with examples, plus a nuggest of advice from Chekhov. (For C.M. Mayo's upcoming workshops, and for many other resources for writers, click here.)*About 8 minutes |
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 Like People You See in a Dream:An excerpt from Miraculous Air about Mission San Ignacio  About
28 minutes |
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| The
Arc of Writerly Action From a panel discussion on writing historical fiction at the American Independent Writers Association Conference, held at the Writer's Center (near Washington DC), June 2011. About 8 and a half minutes |
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| "Hell,
I Knew It Was Paradise" C.M. Mayo reads an excerpt from Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions, 2007) from the chapter "The Sea is Cortes," about a visit to the East Cape for an interview with Bob Van Wormer and the story of Baja California's spectacular sportfishing industry. About
16 1/2 minutes |
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Declutterng Your Writing: The Interior Decoration Analogy C.M. Mayo offers a bit of advice for writers. About
7 minutes |
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| The Writing
Life: A Report from the Field A panel discussion at the "Artlantic" Festival at the Writer's Center in Bthesda MD May 22, 2010 with C.M. Mayo, David Taylor, Alan Elsner, Kevin Quirk, and moderator Jessie Siegal. About
1 hour and 15 minutes |
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| Twelve Tips
to Help You Hang in There and Finish Your Novel C.M. Mayo reads from her guestblog post for Work-in-Progress and the Writer's Center's First Person Plural blogs. About
12 minutes |
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Aloud Reading Series, San Miguel de AllendeC.M. Mayo reads from and discusses The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, her novel based on the true story. Recorded live January 19, 2011 in the Biblioteca's Sala Quetzal. About
1 hour and 30 minutes |
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| Presentación
de la novela El último príncipe del Imperio
Mexicano La novela basada en la historia real por C.M. Mayo, traducido por Agustín Cadena. 26 de mayo, 2011, Ciudad de México. Con la participación del Dr. Javier Garcíadiego, Carlos González Manterola, Eduardo Turrent, y el novelista Carlos Pascual. Apróximadamente
una hora y 25 minutos |
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| C.M. Mayo at the Library of
Congress A presentation of the novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, and an overview of the author's research in the various archives in the Library of Congress, among them, the papers of the Iturbide family, the Emperor Iturbide, and the circa 1920 copies of a substantial portion of the Kaiser Maximilian von Mexiko archive in Vienna. The lecture was sponsored by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, which is the center for the study of the cultures and societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Borderlands, and other areas with Spanish and Portuguese influence. About
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