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November 24, 2011
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CALENDAR
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Friday, 01-27-2012 at 05:00pm
Due to my new job writing for MTV's Teen Wolf, the B&N; Teen Writing Workshop will take a haitus for fall 2011 and resume in 2012!
The B&N; Teen Writing Workshop meets on the last Friday of the month to address a specific writing skill (e.g. "dialogue," "the anti-hero") through discussion and writing prompts.
The next event hosted by me is Friday, January 27th at 5:00pm in Glendale, CA.
This is a FREE event open to middle- and high-school students. Barnes & Noble will provide refreshments. Student work will be featured on the online journal Give Us Money.
210 Americana Way (2nd floor event area), Glendale, CA 91210 [site link] [google map]
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Pictures
My pictures are located on my Flickr account. I add new pictures frequently. They're not all of me. I use my Flickr account to upload pictures for my blog entries.
One reader suggested that I link pictures of Stuyvesant High School since I went there. Good idea.
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| I recorded music from age 13 to age 22. I played bass and some guitar (although I could never play chords). I occasionally sang. |
In Teen Angst? Naaah..., I started a band called Wormwhole (as detailed in the essay "Are We Alternative Now?"). In the book, I said that first five people who contacted me about the band would be allowed to buy a copy of our demo.
To my surprise many people have emailed me asking for the Wormwhole demo, but sadly, for years, the single tape I recorded with my friend Ike was lost.
But then, a few years after the book was published, I was trying to make a mix tape on my stereo. I popped in an old tape to see if it was something I could tape over, and there was all this weird religious chanting. Then, out of the blue, literally sent by God, was the Wormwhole tape!
I don't know how it got into the middle of the tape of religious chanting, but I did a tape-to-mp3 conversion, and now, for free and forever, Wormwhole's two songs are here on this website. Above you're got "Pants In The Mail." "Lumber" is below.
In 2010 I made a video for "Pants in the Mail" that's on YouTube.
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Showing 1 - 2 of 20 (Complete Archive of Music I've Recorded)
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videos
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| As of 2011, new videos are posted on my YouTube channel. |
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It's Kind of a Funny Story Student Trailer
From YouTube user JakkJones: "This was a film project for my sister's English class. It's a fake trailer for a movie based on Ned Vizzini's novel It's Kind of a Funny Story."
More Funny Story student projects:
- It's Kind of a Funny Story soundtrack book report
- It's Kind of a Funny Story student film
- It's Kind of a Funny Story student film WITH PREVIEWS OF ROB SCHNEIDER'S THE STAPLER
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It's Kind of a Funny Story Theatrical Interpretation
In March 2010, Oak Lawn Community High School put on a theatrical performance of It's Kind of a Funny Story called a "Group Interp," or "Group Interpretation" project. They used the text of the book but presented it with a Greek chorus. Very cool and inventive stuff!
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BE MORE CHILL [orb#1]
A Be More Chill reader video project. Also see the Be More Chill student film with fire at the end.
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"Love And Longing" at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
From YouTube user chocochip16: "The brooklyn book festival took place at columbus park by brooklyn borough hall in NYC on Sunday September 13, 2009. At the festival there was a section for young adults.... this video is one of the panels that includes three talented young adult writers, Aimee Friedman ( Sea Change), Anna Godbersen ( The luxe series), and Ned Vizzini ( Be more Chill)."
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Attack of the Killer Turtle Attack of the Killer Turtle, as described in Teen Angst? Naaaah...! It was uncovered after years and is presented here in all its glory.
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Be More Chill Play
The theatrical adaptation of Be More Chill! Adapted by Bill Massolia, starring Jake Cohen as Jeremy and Edward Paul as the squip (seen in Keanu Reeves regalia).
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Just Craig
An IKOAFS video made with Sims 2 by alexatetris.
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"Sonogram" Reading at KGB Bar #1
Audio only: this is a snippet from a book that I abandoned about a man who comes home to find a sonogram taped to his door.
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"Sonogram" Reading at KGB Bar #2
Audio only.
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"Sonogram" Reading at KGB Bar #3
Audio only.
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HOW TO FIND ME ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Things I am on:
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Things I am not on:
- Twitter: no account; I will start an account if I get to 5000 friends on Facebook
- Tumblr: no account
- Myspace: yes account, but it is disabled/I don't check it
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As part of my involvement with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, I take questions about the skill and business of writing in the "Ask Ned" feature:
Click through for instructions on how to ask your own!
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Submitted by readers through the contact page.
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Violet
of NY
says: my favorite part of the book was... oh, let's see... THE WHOLE THING, aka my LIFE! I live in Park Slope, took the Stuy Test, attend Pure Energy Martial Arts (Tessa Gordon's still there), and have done numerous other things that you describe in Teen Angst?Naah...
Never have i identified more with a boook than with this one. I read books for escape, but it's like escaping right back into... you guessed it, My Life!
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Kathleen
of United Kingdom
says: I didnt have a favorite part of this book, it was all amazing, i know that I am going to read this book over and over.
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Matthew
of New Zealand
says: My favourite aspect of both Be More Chill and Teen Angst? Naaah is that the parents (particularly the dads) are portrayed as decent people who are even funny and understanding, rather than as the hysterical losers/ screw up parents that are so ubiquitous in books aimed at young adults.
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Janine
of CA
says: I would say my favourite part would be the whole Aunt Linda
conversation. I mean, I can totally relate. My family acts the same
way. And its the plot revealer... where he's just really honest (...and kinda harsh) about how he sees himself. It's the point where the book
really takes a surrealist turn.
That's my two cents... and more.
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Robin
of CA
says: i liked the part when he was about to get laid but he messes up with the nipple ring and ruins it.
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READER ARTWORK
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| A sample. For more, see the Flickr set. |
by Andrew Geronimo
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by Kendall R. Romero
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by Jordan
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by Maddie Smith
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by Holly
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by Billy Galant
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by farewell_dear
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by Alex
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by Christa Yeung
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by Ross Kahn
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by Julia
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Feast your eyes and ears on this recap of the squip campaign, 2004-2005, which was created to promote Be More Chill. This video is dedicated to all of the readers who helped spread the word about the book. Thank you!
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This chapter of Be More Chill, which goes into explicit detail about what Jeremy does on the internet, was included in the first draft of the book but taken out (wisely) by my editor. Here it is for those who are curious.
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 © Ned Vizzini 2000-2011
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