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Author Melissa Fraterrigo, whose new novel is Glory Days (Univ. of Nebraska Press).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by Melissa Fraterrigo. Take out a story, poem or novel by a writer you admire and look at one page. Isolate words that are evocative or “pop” for you. List them. Then use these words to write a sentence that feels like an opening—and write your own paragraph or scene and insert it into this place. Feel free to continue adding words from your list to your scene. The objective is to use language in a striking way and let it prompt you to use vocabulary different from your own.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
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