An Alice Munro Exercise
“Everybody knows what a house does, how it encloses space and makes connections between one enclosed space and another and presents what is outside in a new way. That is the nearest I can come to explaining what a story is for me.” —Alice Munro
Greetings, writers—
Welcome to Good Ideas, Alice Munro Appreciation Edition, Part 2 of 2.
Unlike Friday’s post, this one is short and sweet, and it includes an actual writing prompt, inspired by the first story in Munro’s excellent first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades1.
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