Connie Robinette
Connie Robinette
Tape Librarian
Writer and tape librarian for South Carolina ETV's vault.
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Stories
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Nora Ephron (1982) | Writer's Workshop
July 10, 2024In this gift from the past, Nora Ephron encourages the new writer to take a job at a newspaper as it is there that you learn what a story is, how to determine a point and have daily deadlines as a requirement. She observed "One of the most glorious things about being trained... -
George Plimpton (1982) | Writer's Workshop
July 03, 2024A veritable literary snapshot in time! Join us at the Writer's Workshop where the student forum meets with legendary George Plimpton. In starting out, Plimpton observes “An awful lot of people who want to become writers don't really write very much. They think a lot about... -
William Price Fox (1982) | Writer's Workshop
June 26, 2024A treasure from the ETV tape vault brings us this segment of the Writer's Workshop where William Price Fox talks about the writing process and answers questions of students from the University of South Carolina's creative writing program. He notes that "You aren't working... -
Susan Sontag (1982) | Writer's Workshop
June 19, 2024In this episode of Writer's Workshop, Susan Sontag meets with USC creative writing students and shares her experience on the day-to-day process of writing, recalling how she found a publisher for her first novel, and explaining how she came to write Illness as Metaphor... -
Remembering Rudy and Our NatureScene Originals (1978-1982)
June 14, 2024In this segment, Remembering Rudy, the ETV vault shares footage of Rudy on location as well as a montage of photos showing Rudy over the years. Beryl Dakers and a group of ETV colleagues, past and present, gather to talk about naturalist Rudy Mancke and what it has meant to... -
William Styron (1982) | Writer's Workshop
June 12, 2024In 1982, William Styron met in the SCETV studio with a group of students from the University of South Carolina's creative writing program to discuss the whys and wherefores of becoming a writer. Styron observed that "Why one wants to be a writer is always a puzzle, because...