A writing podcast for writers and curious readers, featuring interviews with authors, poets, agents and editors. Twice chosen as one of Writer’s Digest Magazine’s 101 Best Website for Writers. Vermont-grown.
Episodes
Feb 23, 2022
Feb 23, 2022
58 min
Vermont Author and Documentarian Jim Carrier, whose book Charity: The Heroic and Heartbreaking Story of Charity Hospital in Hurricane Katrina came out as an audiobook in 2021.
This week's Write the Book Prompt was inspired by my interview with Jim Carrier, whose book Charity tells the story of one hospital in one storm, through the closer detailed narratives of individuals who were caught up in the tragedy. Consider these famous catastrophic moments in history, and either research or imagine a single human story from the incident to write about. Write a scene, a story, a poem, or just a paragraph.
- A hurricane, such as Katrina, Charley, Sandy, or another that inspires you to write
- Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, and the related Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
- And, on a smaller scale, if you prefer to consider a longer-ago historical event, The Hindenburg
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Sep 2, 2019
Sep 2, 2019
1hr 34 sec
Archive Interview with Moira Crone. We discussed her 2012 novel, The Not Yet (Univ of New Orleans Press).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to begin with one of the following phrases, and write from where it leaves off:
- After he dove into the water…
- Through the haze and beyond the line of tractors, he saw…
- When she found the watch in her sister’s top dresser drawer…
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and tune in next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music Credit: Aaron Shapiro
May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014
31 min
Interview with Jim DeFilippi, whose new novel is Jesus Burned, published by Brown Fedora Books.
Today's Write The Book Prompt is to do as Jim DeFilippi suggested during our interview: deliver action through dialogue. In other words, think of a scene in which something happens--some action--whether it's someone robbing a bank, going for a run, taking part in a car chase or giving a gift. And get the action across, after the fact, by way of dialogue, as people later discuss it.
Good luck with this prompt and please listen next week for another.
Music credits: 1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students, now alums).