1. Notes: 313 / 6 months ago  from effyeahnerdfighters (originally from bookworm91691)

   In case you couldn’t get to Butler to see John Green today, I took notes.

   bookworm91691:

   In his talk:

   • “If you like bookstores, as I do, you should buy stuff from them.”
   • TFIOS is about “how we should react to the inevitability of human oblivion” and the courage it takes to live anyway
   • How to think about other people is at the core of being a person.
   • “My mind is the only mind I’ll ever have.” (He talked a lot about the idea of imagining people complexly, which I always love hearing about.)
   • “Our experience is the most immediate and most real to us.”
   • We need to not dehumanize and romanticize others.
   • “When we imagine people as more than human it is destructive in its own way.”
   • Actual paper towns are a really good metaphor for writing because everyone wants to believe that scratches on paper can lead to real change in the lives of real people.
   • He also had one really funny story about graffiti in the middle east that newscasters were freaking out about but that his friend said really meant something along the lines of “Happy birthday sir, despite the unfortunate circumstances,” and talked a lot about how his first novel was going to be about a handsome, intelligent, 22-year-old chaplain that was involved in a torrid love affair with a beautiful and wealthy doctor, but he sort of scrapped that because the sick children and teens that they were taking care of were only one-dimensional. He didn’t quite understand at that point that they were really just like any other teens, but just happened to be sick, until he met Esther. 

   In the question and answer:

   • Yes, all the copies of TFIOS will be signed. Haha.
   • The “Issac/eye sick” pun was totally unintentional. He was actually named after the Issac in the bible.
   • He doesn’t really worry about plotting when writing his novels - he has a general, non-detailed outline, but doesn’t really worry about sticking to it.
   • The Tour de Nerdfighting will be in January, he said (AWESOME).
   • Revision is one of the most important steps in the writing process - most of the stuff in his books wasn’t in them until the revision. 
   • “Just because I had a thought didn’t mean that it was valuable.” It’s important to cut stuff out during revision.
   • He talked about how the idea for Colin to get dumped by so many Katherines originally came from his own experience getting dumped “over and over again,” but that the book didn’t end up being as depressing as he thought it would be because he wrote it at about the time he fell in love with the Yeti and just didn’t have the heart to be super pessimistic about relationships.
   • “You don’t live happily ever after. You just live.” 
   • “Have I been up there the whole time?” - when he figured out that they had been showing his speech on a giant screen behind him, haha. 

   I was sort of sad that videotaping was prohibited, but I am pretty happy with the notes I took. :D

   It was an incredible evening, even though I didn’t stay for the book signing because there were too many people. All I had to get signed was my second copy of Paper Towns, my hardcover version, and there were at least 200 people in front of us in line so we just kind of gave up. 

   I am so grateful that John was willing to speak tonight. He is such an eloquent speaker, and has so many great ideas, and is just a brilliant person in general… I can only hope that I grow up to be as cool as John Green.

   “You don’t live happily ever after. You just live.”

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      Since this will be out soon, I felt the need to reblog this. :)

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      I so want to go to a John Green talk!!! He is just amazing. :)

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       I’ll never forgive myself for letting me miss this…. But these notes help the pain.

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