00:00 Presentation - How do we know each other
03:56 Changing your profile picture to Ukraine flag, understanding that we are no experts, and asking the hard question: Where is the limit?
38:46 The process of writing is not getting about getting a good product. Writing is a process of thinking.
42:24 Writing every day is very good for your writing, or the value of regular practise in writing.
46:28 Writing always gets better, but we will be never as good as the best authors of all time. Be humble with your writing.
50:03 Writing is never finished, everything is written and rewritten.
52:22 Returning Captive and the theme of the haunted protagonist
56:00 Jerusalem is the most haunted city in the world.
58:10 Presenting a choice in the Returning Captive - living as a family or living in Jerusalem.
59:44 How does Ori see himself in the protagonist.
01:05:38 What happens when you lose a friend in the army?
01:08:45 The connection between Returning Captive and Miriam Preczyk, and presenting the Miriam Perzyk essay.
01:14:28 Miriam Preczyk expresses a reflection of a mental state of a 19-year-old IDF soldier.
01:17:45 Writing could be a form of therapy, but it is not always one.
01:18:20 Returning Captive and Miriam Preczyk designated audiences and pushed a conversation.
01:21:04 Why is it important to know where you live, and the truth about what has happened there in the past.
01:25:34 The book is no anti-zionist or pro-zionist - it is a reflection of a person's trauma and the implications.
01:28:20 There is no sin that does not have a bit of the golden calf.
01:30:05 Morally - a non colonized existence.
01:34:00 There is always something that is stolen - where do we put the spotlight?
01:35:40 Feeling bad about something is not enough to fix a problem.
01:37:25 Battle of colonialism - who is morality better? Is there such a thing? Also, a debate about safety in Israel for Jews is Arabs.
Advice
01:47:15 Finding time to write.
01:52:18 How to market my novels.
02:00:20 How to protect myself from plagiarism.
02:04:45 Jokes
Nonsense Questions
02:08:54 Blowing your nose into a handkerchief or toilet paper?
02:09:59 Dancing on a rooftop or a downtown basement?
02:11:26 Pressing toothpaste from the end of it?
02:12:26 Writing on a computer or a typewriter?
02:12:44 Sum up, and where can you see Ori's material