#408 Victoria Dougherty: Writing Fiction, Religion, Politics, Comedy, and Interesting Villains
RECORDED ON OCTOBER 9th 2020.
Victoria Dougherty is the author of The Bone Church, Welcome to the Hotel Yalta, and Cold. She writes fiction, drama, and essays that revolve around lovers, killers, curses, and destinies. Her work has been published or profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, The International Herald Tribune, and elsewhere. Earlier in her career, while living in Prague, she co-founded Black Box Theater, translating, producing, and acting in several Czech plays. Her blog – COLD – features her short essays on faith, family, love, and writing. WordPress, the blogging platform that hosts some 70 million blogs worldwide, has singled out COLD as one of the Top 50 Recommended Blogs by writers or about writing.
This is my second interview with Victoria. You can find our first talk here: https://youtu.be/T6gTK0dZcQc
In this episode, we talk about Victoria’s creative process; the difficulties in worldbuilding; how child stories can be much more complex and mature than they seem; the fictions people create online and on social media; if religious people are better writers than atheists; tribalism, politics, and how it affects fiction and the society in general; the social importance of comedy; how readers and critics interpret fiction; writing from first-person and third-person perspectives; and some interesting villains in series, movies, and books.
Time Links:
Victoria’s ongoing series
The creative process behind a saga
Child stories are more complex than they seem
Fictions in social media
Do religious authors write better than atheists?
Tribalism and politics
Do readers interpret fiction correctly?
The social importance of comedy
Are literary critics jerks?
Writing from a first-person perspective, and as a narrator
Creating interesting villains
Follow Victoria’s work:
Website: http://bit.ly/2HoiQ0f
COLD (blog): http://bit.ly/2ZnyeUU
YouTube channel/vlog: http://bit.ly/2HkHoYc
Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2PrstSz
Twitter handle: @vicdougherty
Support Victoria on Patreon! : http://bit.ly/31VXqj1