The Matterhorn: truth in fiction
The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller
Let's Do This: Nothingness in Fiction | Episode 44
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Let's Do This: Nothingness in Fiction | Episode 44

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: Nothingness in Fiction

1.     Where are the gaps or ambiguity in your fiction? Why might you choose to keep them as silences or conversely choose to fill them in? What do memory, perspectives, time, and aesthetics have to do with these gaps?  

2.     Who or what is unnamed in your fiction and who or what is invisible? Is the absence about marginalization, memory, trying to hide…or something else? How might you choose to include the unnamed in your work, whether the main subject or minor elements and characters?

3.     How can absence create a kind of ellipsis in your fiction? In what ways does the silence give us space to play or to seek the nuances of truth?

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.
Each week in this new season, Kathleen shares a chapter of her serialized novels - A Hong Kong Story & An Interpreter in Vienna - and uses it as a catalyst to discuss the layers of literature and how you can use these in your own writing.
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