#730 Victoria Dougherty: Science and Literature, Character Development, Realism, and Free Speech
RECORDED ON AUGUST 26th 2022.
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 our fourth talk. This time, we go through topics like the relationship between science and fictional literature; how to create compelling characters; issues with character development in recent superhero movies and villains; “realism” in art, and what it means; the limits of free speech and humor; and being “genuine”, trolling, and over-sharing on the internet.
Time Links:
The relationship between science and fictional literature
Creating characters, and character development
Issues with recent superhero movies and villains
Is “realistic” art better? What does it even mean to be “realistic”?
The limits of free speech and humor
Being “genuine”, trolling, and over-sharing on the internet
Follow Victoria’s work:
Our first interview: https://youtu.be/T6gTK0dZcQc
Our second interview: https://youtu.be/NHCGW3_Opc0
Our third interview: https://youtu.be/8C4b7Zs7DJM
Website: http://bit.ly/2HoiQ0f
Cold (podcast): https://bit.ly/3QUJgIR
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