Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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Award-winning author Madeline Miller, whose new novel is Circe (Little Brown).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt was offered by my guest, Madeline Miller. Inspired by an Ursula K. LeGuin exercise, Madeline has used this one in her classes. She says it’s about “the elephant in the room.” Write a scene that is about a major trauma without actually mentioning the trauma. For example, have two characters talk about a death that has just happened, but neither of them mentions it. This is the elephant in the room. It is never named, but the truth of it is there in the scene.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
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