I'm curious if anyone has ever watched this. Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler takes you through his process of creating a short story for a collection entitled Had a Good Time. There are seventeen episodes and each episode is just under two hours long. I've watched about the first half of them and it's fascinating to watch a Pulitzer Prize winning author work. It's inspiring and motivating, but at times it can be dull (it is, after all, watching a guy write), but he explains what he's doing and why he's doing it. It was filmed in his office at FSU. Just wondering if anyone has seen it and what your thoughts are. I left the Youtube link below for anyone interested.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCv6n1whoI23GmdBZienRW0Q0nFCU_ay
I came across the video once, and it's quite a treat, what he's doing I mean. But the thought of actually watching the thing is a bit daunting just the same.
There was a thread on it a long time ago--no post-watching discussion though:
http://litreactor.com/discuss/robert-olen-butler-lectures
I planned to watch it, started watching it, and still kind of want to watch it, but... knowing that my favorite writing procrastination is "studying" writing, there was something about not working on my own writing, while simultaneously watching someone else doing the exact thing I should have been doing, that ramped my self-loathing up to dangerous levels. The longer I watched, the more pathetic I felt.
How much have you watched, and what's the most interesting thing you've pulled from the experience?