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Prompt: Today’s Write The Book Prompt was suggested by my first guest, Robert Vivian. In his work with students, he occasionally distributes postcards from small towns, and asks each student to write a note on that card to a fictional recipient. Look at the postcard and imagine you’re traveling across the country and you’ve landed in this small town. Use the postcard as a trigger and write to someone. It could be someone who’s wronged you in the past or it could be a beloved person. You might be writing this postcard due to a situation that you’re fleeing. “Dear Randy. Hello from the middle of nowhere. I’m in a diner. Icicles are hanging down from the roof. I’m driving to Santa Fe. I have 20 dollars in my pocket. I can’t stop thinking about the last time we spoke…” Etc. Invent a situation and write. Let the postcard be a trigger, and lose yourself in the creative act. Good luck with this exercise and please listen next week for another.
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Nathaniel Ian Miller - 3/13/22
Brad Kessler - 2/27/23
Caroline Lea - 2/20/23
Emily Forland - Archive Episode (2/13/23)
Annie Seyler - 2/6/23
Olena Kharchenko and Michael Sampson - 1/30/23
Jessica Nordell - 1/23/23
Green Mountain Book Festival Panel: Mysteries and Thrillers - 1/9/23
Erika Nichols-Frazer - 1/2/23
Andrew Liptak - 12/19/22
Green Mountain Book Festival Panel: Nonfiction - 12/12/22
Tari Prinster - Archive Interview (12/5/22)
Reina Pennington - 11/28/22
Samantha Kolber - 11/28/22
Green Mountain Book Festival Panel: Memoir - 11/21/22
Dr. Millicent Eidson - 11/14/22
Roseanne Montillo - 11/14/22
Thomas H. McNeely - 11/7/22
Gareth Higgins - 10/31/22
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