Lecture 2: Building Fictional Worlds through Evocation
- Try this exercise from John Gardner’s 7KH $UW RI )LFWLRQ: Write a
passage describing a building, a landscape, or an object, but imagine
that you’re writing from the point of view of a parent whose child has
just died. Describe the object without mentioning the child or death. The
idea is to see if you can evoke a feeling of loss and grief in the reader
without mentioning the emotions themselves.
Writing Exercise