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Episodes
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
Prize-Winning Author Michael Andreasen, whose new story collection is The Sea Beast Takes a Lover (Dutton).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously suggested by my guest, Michael Andreasen. Try to find an oblique angle - an odd vector of approach. Sometimes this is as simple as not starting in the place where you have the impulse to start. So if your charaters are in a room, perhaps begin in the other corner of that room. Describe the air coming in the vents, or something happening outside the window. Or maybe a sink in a nearby bathroom is making a noise. Move the focus someplace else. We have such an urge to get to the ONE thing we want to talk about, and talking about only that thing can become boring. A dripping faucet, or an unattended child spotted through a window, about to wander into the street, can ramp up the tension.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music by Aaron Shapiro
Monday Sep 16, 2013
Monday Sep 16, 2013
Vermont Author Kathryn Davis, whose new novel is Duplex, published by Graywolf Press.
Today’s Write The Book Prompt was inspired by my conversation with Kathryn Davis about her new book, Duplex. Write about a situation or place that, somehow, has multiple dimensions.
Music credits: 1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several South Burlington High School students.