Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях 3–9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Прослушайте запись дважды. Пример ответа: 1 6. Vanessa thinks that anybody can be a storyteller because … 1) people are born with this gift. 2) people know a lot of stories. 3) everybody enjoys being one.

Presenter: Hello, everyone. This is your favorite weekly programme 'Writers'. Today we are happy to have here Vanessa Silva, the famous writer who has won numerous awards for her short fiction. Her novels are described as extraordinarily lyrical, moving, yet funny. Hello, Vanessa. Vanessa: Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me. Presenter: I've always wanted to know how people understand they were born to write books. You see, a writer is not a common profession. When did you first start writing? Vanessa: I started writing when I was still a child. I produced a newspaper at the age of six. The first issue was written in blue crayon. I wrote dreadful poetry when I was in my teens. I've still got it and it makes me giggle. I didn't write much apart from comedy, skits, and sketches until I started writing fiction properly in late 2002. Presenter: How did you go about starting your first novel? Vanessa: I remember I was once shopping in Brighton during a thunderstorm. I dashed into a bookshop and I picked up a random book. I drove home, sat down with some tea in my wet trousers, and I didn't get up again until I'd finished it, 400 pages. I have to thank that man so much. That's when I turned from someone who had bought a book to someone who had become a writer. It pushed the switch. It unlocked the feeling of, I want to do this. Presenter: Apart from being a writer, you are also a lecturer. How did you get into teaching? Vanessa: I think I'd found the thing that I loved doing and I wanted to pass on the love of doing it. I'm a totally non-academic tutor. I'm very craft-based, and I try to open up creativity in people, literally, in every person. Presenter: Do you believe everybody has a story to tell? Vanessa: I think that storytelling is almost innate in us. People sat round fires and caves in the Stone Age, telling each other stories. I don't think they would have just said, I went off and got a mammoth today. We have an ability to hang on to the important facts and drip-feed people with the important bits. You don't give it all up front. You make them want to know the next bit. Keep them involved by creating the character that draws them in and putting that character in a situation they can empathize with. Make the reader want to find out how they resolve this thing. Presenter: What is your advice for writers who are just starting? Vanessa: Read as much as you can, not just the things you're told to read by parents, tutors, and reviewers. Read anything, both good books and bad ones. Whatever genre you want to work in, you've got to get a sense for when you're improving. Write as much as you can, and at some point you will find that the words take on a shape and rhythm of their own. It's almost a physical thing to recognize what it feels like, that moment when you change from being the person in charge of the pen to someone not deliberately creating something. You'll find the point when a character takes off and does their own thing. You need to recognize that and not refuse to let the character do what they want. Don't use the characters as the puppet. Be a tool to the character so you're following along behind them. Listen to your own instincts as a writer and then edit. That may mean cutting a huge amount of words or cutting down a story by a third. I think a lot of writers don't do enough. They leave it raw. There's no point in doing things by half. Presenter: Thank you, Vanessa. It has been very interesting talking to you. Vanessa: Thank you.

Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях 3–9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Прослушайте запись дважды. Пример ответа: 1 8. What books does Vanessa specifically advise beginner writers to read? 1) Good books. 2) Bad books. 3) Both good and bad books.

Presenter: Hello, everyone. This is your favorite weekly programme 'Writers'. Today we are happy to have here Vanessa Silva, the famous writer who has won numerous awards for her short fiction. Her novels are described as extraordinarily lyrical, moving, yet funny. Hello, Vanessa. Vanessa: Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me. Presenter: I've always wanted to know how people understand they were born to write books. You see, a writer is not a common profession. When did you first start writing? Vanessa: I started writing when I was still a child. I produced a newspaper at the age of six. The first issue was written in blue crayon. I wrote dreadful poetry when I was in my teens. I've still got it and it makes me giggle. I didn't write much apart from comedy, skits, and sketches until I started writing fiction properly in late 2002. Presenter: How did you go about starting your first novel? Vanessa: I remember I was once shopping in Brighton during a thunderstorm. I dashed into a bookshop and I picked up a random book. I drove home, sat down with some tea in my wet trousers, and I didn't get up again until I'd finished it, 400 pages. I have to thank that man so much. That's when I turned from someone who had bought a book to someone who had become a writer. It pushed the switch. It unlocked the feeling of, I want to do this. Presenter: Apart from being a writer, you are also a lecturer. How did you get into teaching? Vanessa: I think I'd found the thing that I loved doing and I wanted to pass on the love of doing it. I'm a totally non-academic tutor. I'm very craft-based, and I try to open up creativity in people, literally, in every person. Presenter: Do you believe everybody has a story to tell? Vanessa: I think that storytelling is almost innate in us. People sat round fires and caves in the Stone Age, telling each other stories. I don't think they would have just said, I went off and got a mammoth today. We have an ability to hang on to the important facts and drip-feed people with the important bits. You don't give it all up front. You make them want to know the next bit. Keep them involved by creating the character that draws them in and putting that character in a situation they can empathize with. Make the reader want to find out how they resolve this thing. Presenter: What is your advice for writers who are just starting? Vanessa: Read as much as you can, not just the things you're told to read by parents, tutors, and reviewers. Read anything, both good books and bad ones. Whatever genre you want to work in, you've got to get a sense for when you're improving. Write as much as you can, and at some point you will find that the words take on a shape and rhythm of their own. It's almost a physical thing to recognize what it feels like, that moment when you change from being the person in charge of the pen to someone not deliberately creating something. You'll find the point when a character takes off and does their own thing. You need to recognize that and not refuse to let the character do what they want. Don't use the characters as the puppet. Be a tool to the character so you're following along behind them. Listen to your own instincts as a writer and then edit. That may mean cutting a huge amount of words or cutting down a story by a third. I think a lot of writers don't do enough. They leave it raw. There's no point in doing things by half. Presenter: Thank you, Vanessa. It has been very interesting talking to you. Vanessa: Thank you.

Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях 3–9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Прослушайте запись дважды. Пример ответа: 1 8. How does Vanessa treat her characters? 1) Like puppets. 2) Like means to impress readers. 3) Like people living their own lives in a story.

Presenter: Hello, everyone. This is your favorite weekly programme 'Writers'. Today we are happy to have here Vanessa Silva, the famous writer who has won numerous awards for her short fiction. Her novels are described as extraordinarily lyrical, moving, yet funny. Hello, Vanessa. Vanessa: Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me. Presenter: I've always wanted to know how people understand they were born to write books. You see, a writer is not a common profession. When did you first start writing? Vanessa: I started writing when I was still a child. I produced a newspaper at the age of six. The first issue was written in blue crayon. I wrote dreadful poetry when I was in my teens. I've still got it and it makes me giggle. I didn't write much apart from comedy, skits, and sketches until I started writing fiction properly in late 2002. Presenter: How did you go about starting your first novel? Vanessa: I remember I was once shopping in Brighton during a thunderstorm. I dashed into a bookshop and I picked up a random book. I drove home, sat down with some tea in my wet trousers, and I didn't get up again until I'd finished it, 400 pages. I have to thank that man so much. That's when I turned from someone who had bought a book to someone who had become a writer. It pushed the switch. It unlocked the feeling of, I want to do this. Presenter: Apart from being a writer, you are also a lecturer. How did you get into teaching? Vanessa: I think I'd found the thing that I loved doing and I wanted to pass on the love of doing it. I'm a totally non-academic tutor. I'm very craft-based, and I try to open up creativity in people, literally, in every person. Presenter: Do you believe everybody has a story to tell? Vanessa: I think that storytelling is almost innate in us. People sat round fires and caves in the Stone Age, telling each other stories. I don't think they would have just said, I went off and got a mammoth today. We have an ability to hang on to the important facts and drip-feed people with the important bits. You don't give it all up front. You make them want to know the next bit. Keep them involved by creating the character that draws them in and putting that character in a situation they can empathize with. Make the reader want to find out how they resolve this thing. Presenter: What is your advice for writers who are just starting? Vanessa: Read as much as you can, not just the things you're told to read by parents, tutors, and reviewers. Read anything, both good books and bad ones. Whatever genre you want to work in, you've got to get a sense for when you're improving. Write as much as you can, and at some point you will find that the words take on a shape and rhythm of their own. It's almost a physical thing to recognize what it feels like, that moment when you change from being the person in charge of the pen to someone not deliberately creating something. You'll find the point when a character takes off and does their own thing. You need to recognize that and not refuse to let the character do what they want. Don't use the characters as the puppet. Be a tool to the character so you're following along behind them. Listen to your own instincts as a writer and then edit. That may mean cutting a huge amount of words or cutting down a story by a third. I think a lot of writers don't do enough. They leave it raw. There's no point in doing things by half. Presenter: Thank you, Vanessa. It has been very interesting talking to you. Vanessa: Thank you.

Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях 3–9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Прослушайте запись дважды. Пример ответа: 1 9. Which of the following does Vanessa say about editing? 1) You should edit at least a third of the original text. 2) It may considerably shorten your text. 3) A raw text is more interesting than its edited version.

Presenter: Hello, everyone. This is your favorite weekly programme 'Writers'. Today we are happy to have here Vanessa Silva, the famous writer who has won numerous awards for her short fiction. Her novels are described as extraordinarily lyrical, moving, yet funny. Hello, Vanessa. Vanessa: Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me. Presenter: I've always wanted to know how people understand they were born to write books. You see, a writer is not a common profession. When did you first start writing? Vanessa: I started writing when I was still a child. I produced a newspaper at the age of six. The first issue was written in blue crayon. I wrote dreadful poetry when I was in my teens. I've still got it and it makes me giggle. I didn't write much apart from comedy, skits, and sketches until I started writing fiction properly in late 2002. Presenter: How did you go about starting your first novel? Vanessa: I remember I was once shopping in Brighton during a thunderstorm. I dashed into a bookshop and I picked up a random book. I drove home, sat down with some tea in my wet trousers, and I didn't get up again until I'd finished it, 400 pages. I have to thank that man so much. That's when I turned from someone who had bought a book to someone who had become a writer. It pushed the switch. It unlocked the feeling of, I want to do this. Presenter: Apart from being a writer, you are also a lecturer. How did you get into teaching? Vanessa: I think I'd found the thing that I loved doing and I wanted to pass on the love of doing it. I'm a totally non-academic tutor. I'm very craft-based, and I try to open up creativity in people, literally, in every person. Presenter: Do you believe everybody has a story to tell? Vanessa: I think that storytelling is almost innate in us. People sat round fires and caves in the Stone Age, telling each other stories. I don't think they would have just said, I went off and got a mammoth today. We have an ability to hang on to the important facts and drip-feed people with the important bits. You don't give it all up front. You make them want to know the next bit. Keep them involved by creating the character that draws them in and putting that character in a situation they can empathize with. Make the reader want to find out how they resolve this thing. Presenter: What is your advice for writers who are just starting? Vanessa: Read as much as you can, not just the things you're told to read by parents, tutors, and reviewers. Read anything, both good books and bad ones. Whatever genre you want to work in, you've got to get a sense for when you're improving. Write as much as you can, and at some point you will find that the words take on a shape and rhythm of their own. It's almost a physical thing to recognize what it feels like, that moment when you change from being the person in charge of the pen to someone not deliberately creating something. You'll find the point when a character takes off and does their own thing. You need to recognize that and not refuse to let the character do what they want. Don't use the characters as the puppet. Be a tool to the character so you're following along behind them. Listen to your own instincts as a writer and then edit. That may mean cutting a huge amount of words or cutting down a story by a third. I think a lot of writers don't do enough. They leave it raw. There's no point in doing things by half. Presenter: Thank you, Vanessa. It has been very interesting talking to you. Vanessa: Thank you.

Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях 3–9 запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа. Прослушайте запись дважды. Пример ответа: 1 3. What do we learn about Julia at the beginning of the interview? 1) She has written a number of books. 2) She is the author of How to Get Published. 3) She organizes events for writers.

Presenter: Hello everybody. Welcome to our weekly program 'Five Minutes with a Star'. Today in our studio we have Julia Summer, a prolific writer, some of whose books are international bestsellers. Hello, Julia. Julia: Good afternoon. It's a pleasure being here. Thank you for inviting me. Presenter: You will be speaking on establishing pace and plot of a novel and the coming How to Get Published Conference, which is going to be a truly important event for writers from all over the world. At what stage of the writing process does this plotting enter the structure of your novels and how does this affect your overall writing process? Julia: My writing process typically involves a what-if idea or scenario. I'll run it past my agent and editor to see if it gets their approval. Then I'll start to brainstorm it. I'll ask questions of my main character. Who is he or she? What happened in his or her past that shaped his or her personality? And most importantly, what does he or she want more than anything else in the world? Then I'll think about supporting characters, particularly the antagonist. Once I've got my cast, I'll begin thinking about structure. I'll plot on a whiteboard using the four-act structure and add post-it notes for scenes. If I've got time, I'll then run that past my agent and editor in case they have any concerns. And if they give the thumbs up, I'll start writing the first draft. Presenter: Speaking about the coming conference, what would you say is the major benefit for attending publishing events for writers as compared to, say, online resources on the subject? Julia: I think the major difference between online and face-to-face events is energy. Whenever I've taught or attended an event, it's the energy in the room that I really notice. There's a rich atmosphere of expectation, optimism, and motivation that you don't get if you're sitting alone at your computer. There's also the opportunity to swap stories with other attendees, learn from the questions that are asked and the answers given by the speaker. There's a sense of community that you don't get online, and people often leave feeling fired up, motivated, and determined. Presenter: Why do you think it's important to have writers talking about their own pathways and careers at events like How to Get Published? What is it that writers can offer that is different from the advice of editors and agents? Julia: I think writers can offer a completely different perspective to editors and agents. Agents and editors can talk about the process, the mechanics of getting published. But only authors can talk about the emotions involved. We know how it feels to be rejected and to doubt ourselves, and we can share the joys, too. A publisher or agent may feel proud when their author's book is published, but what we feel is so much greater than that. And we all have such different experiences. Presenter: What would you say is the top misconception people have about the process of getting published? Julia: That it's easy, that anyone can write a book, that everyone has a story. Sorry, that's three. The top misconception is probably that it's quick. It's not. Even if you're lucky enough to write one book, get representation from an agent, and a publishing deal, it could be years before that book hits the shelves. Presenter: Thank you, Julia. It has been really interesting talking to you. Julia: Thank you.