Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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Tessa Hadley, author of the new novel Late in the Day (Harper).
This week’s Write the Book Prompt was mentioned during our interview. Tessa Hadley said she needs to know who her characters are, physically, in order to write about them. She has set an exercise to students in which they pair up and write physical descriptions of each other. So this week, write a physical description of someone you know well or at least can get a really good look at. Don’t let that person see the outcome of your efforts; Tessa says this last instruction--not sharing the outcome--is imperative, insuring that you will keep the physical description that you write honest.
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and please listen next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music Credit: 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)
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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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