3187 - Where writers get their ideas (Michael Ludden)
Course Description
Instructor: Michael Ludden
Book and story ideas are no great mystery. It's all about keeping it real and paying attention to three things: simple concepts, using your personal experiences and - more often than you think - seeking out professional expertise.
Michael Ludden is a former Deputy Managing Editor at the Orlando Sentinel, where he directed a year-long investigation that won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Projects he wrote or edited won numerous awards over a 25-year newspaper career. He’s written for magazines, advertising and marketing firms, edited books and been a senior writer/editor at CNN’s Headline News. Ludden is the author of three suspense novels about Tate Drawdy, a rich kid from Atlanta who drops out of medical school to become a cop... "Alfredo's Luck"... "Tate Drawdy"... and the soon-to-be-published, "The Street King". Ludden also wrote "Tales from the Morgue", a collection of short stories from his days in journalism. He grew up in Mountain Lakes, N.J., and has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington College.