The Matterhorn: truth in fiction
The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller
Let's Do This: Income Gap in Fiction | Episode 36
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Let's Do This: Income Gap in Fiction | Episode 36

Three ways to get started and an opportunity to share your work
Welcome to Let’s Do This —
the weekly Matterhorn podcast as digestible 5 minute episodes with 3 ideas for starting points in your own work. Please feel free to share links to your own work in the comments!
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Let’s Do This: Income Gap in Fiction

1.     Do you want to say something about class or income and wealth gaps in your fiction? Is it also connected to a particular setting or economic policy, or perhaps to a group of people – race, nationality of immigrants for example?

2.     How can you show class in your fiction (besides talking about it explicitly)? Language, food, living space, opportunities, fashion. Juxtaposition, hyperbole, allusion… It doesn’t have to be the subject to use these elements implicitly.

3.     Do you consider the income and spending power of your characters and the way this affects their actions and perspectives?

Please feel free to share links to your own work (including other forms of fiction - songs, visual art, film…) or copy and paste short sections to share with our readers!

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The Matterhorn: truth in fiction
The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller
The Matterhorn is for writers and curious minds from author and academic Dr. Kathleen Waller.
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