Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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Vermont authors Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy, whose new novel is Once & Future (jimmy patterson).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt was generously offered by my guests this week, Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta. When they received notes from their editor about a section of Once & Future that, for one reason or another, needed a little work - perhaps not enough was happening in a scene - they would sit down and brainstorm what they came to call “the ten worst things that could happen to your character.” The first thing was always, "the character dies." Even if this was not the answer, Cori and Amy Rose say that you have to include ridiculous things as well as possibilities. The ridiculous things loosen up the other things that might actually lead to a solution.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music: Aaron Shapiro
Bill Mares - Archive Interview #511 (5/28/18)
April Ossmann - Interview #510 (5/21/18)
Tim Kreider - Interview #509 (5/14/18)
Madeline Miller - Interview #508 B (5/7/18)
Kim MacQueen Interviews Lisa Romeo - Interview #508 A (5/7/18)
Veera Hiranandani - Interview #507 (4/30/18)
Therese Bohman - Interview #506 (4/23/18)
Sally Helgesen - Interview #505 (4/16/18)
Ralph Culver - Interview #504 (4/9/18)
Mary Casanova - Archive Interview #503
Jill M. Allen - Interview #502 (3/26/18)
Yang Huang - Interview #501 (3/19/18)
Michael Andreasen - Interview #500 (!) (3/12/18)
Robin Oliveira - Interview #499 (3/5/18)
Martin Puchner - Interview #498 (2/26/18)
Shelagh Reads a Story by Howard Frank Mosher - Show #497 (2/19/18)
Kristin Hannah - Interview #496 (2/12/18)
James Lee Burke - Interview #495 (2/5/18)
Brad Warner - Interview #494 (2/5/18)
Rick Smolan - Interview #493 (1/29/18)
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