Kaui Hart Hemmings
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Kaui Hart Hemmings is an American writer who was born and raised in Hawaii. She attended Colorado College and graduated in 1998. Her debut novel The Descendants was adapted by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash into the highly acclaimed 2011 American film The Descendants, starring George Clooney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
birthday
For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.
heads work
Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.
points
Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.
becomes experience felt novelist typical
I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
time work
I like to work out every day, so that takes up some time.
highly love taken
I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
experience life time
I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
jonathan
Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.
crave
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
applied gave grad knew moved school shot took
After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.
depend experience might reality speak spots tourists
I can't speak for all Hawaiians, but the reality is that we depend on tourism. Locals might not want to go to the spots like Waikiki, but we do want tourists to experience more of the islands.
action details dragging people plot revealing sitting
I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.
gets grief happiness humor levity life moments naturally sadness
I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.
closer freely good
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.