It was so exciting to see Jennifer Donnelly yesterday at the teacher's conference. The speech that she gave was so entertaining and well-prepared. I truly enjoyed every minute of her presentation. The most interesting part for me was when she was going through the numerous pictures that she had from the Glennmore and from Chester Gillette and Grace Brown. I actually got goosebumps as she showed the pictures. It is so eerie knowing what happened to Grace and seeing those old photographs of her and her murderer and Big Moose Lake. Her speech on the imagination was creative, humorous, and inspirational. She was extremely well spoken and was younger than I had expected. She looked as if she were only in her mid-twenties!
It was amazing to hear about all of the historical work that she had to go through before writing A Northern Light. I had no idea how much time and effort she spent searching for photographs, brochures, what life was like in the early 1900's, etc...I found it particularly interesting that she found a lot of her pictures on ebay. I was curious as to how much she paid for those pictures. I should have asked!
The amount of time that it takes to construct a novel is incridible. Donnelly stated that she had been planning to write A Northern Light for nearly 10 years before she found an agent. I never realized that it was 100% necessary to find an agent before even having a book acknowledged by publishing companies. I couldn't believe how many times Donnelly had to make revisions to her book before it was "good enough" to be put out on the market. I've always wanted to someday write my own novel, however I never realized just how time consuming and how difficult it was to do so. Donnelly's presentation was wonderful and it was so amazing to see her in person after reading ANL. It was a great experience and I'm very glad that I had the opportunity to see her!
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Lindsay, what a nice post on Donnelly's talk. I agree that it was just terrific. She really knew her audience I felt.
I don't think those pictures cost anything? I wonder if there is any copyright operating on that material? Good question.
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