{"id":3092,"date":"2023-09-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/living-writers\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2024-02-25T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T22:29:52","slug":"john-fulton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/living-writers\/john-fulton\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fulton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Fulton&nbsp;reads from&nbsp;<em>The Flounder and Other Stories<\/em>&nbsp;(Blackwater Press 2023).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We talk about&nbsp;writing&nbsp;about place, the role of first sentences and first paragraphs in short stories, and listening to the language to find a shape for revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also talk about drawing from your own life to create fictional characters and settings&#8211;and how some material may take years before it finds its time and way into the stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3092-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2023-09-06-170001-EDT.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2023-09-06-170001-EDT.mp3\">http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2023-09-06-170001-EDT.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/beanball.wcbn.org\/rss\/Living_Writers\/wcbn-living_writers-2023-09-06-170001-EDT.mp3\">Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Thanks to Jason Voss for engineering and post production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Recorded August 24, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fulton&nbsp;reads from&nbsp;The Flounder and Other Stories&nbsp;(Blackwater Press 2023).&nbsp; We talk about&nbsp;writing&nbsp;about place, the role of first sentences and first paragraphs in short stories, and listening to the language to find a shape for revision. 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