Description
Book SynopsisOffers an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M.C. Benner Dixon, which addresses a specific writing element such as metaphor, inspiration, place, surprise, or imagery.
Table of Contents
- An Introduction to Millions of Suns
- 1. MEMORY
- Taking Flight: On Memory
- Everything I Can’t Remember
- Memory Prompts
- 2. IMAGERY
- The Clouds at Bearfence
- Fresh Firecoal Chestnuts, Finches Wings
- Imagery Prompts
- 3. SURPRISE
- Surprise!
- Now Narrowly We Knew Her
- Surprise Prompts
- 4. INSPIRATION
- Wild Dogs and Pittsburgh Sunrise: When Inspiration Calls
- Find a Door: Entering the Writing House
- Inspiration Prompts
- 5. METAPHOR
- A Question about Metaphor
- What my Metaphors Say
- Metaphor Prompts
- 6. PLACE
- When I Say Here
- To Reach the Moon: On Place
- Place Prompts
- 7. READING
- When a Child Meets her Words
- Confessions of an Acolyte: Regarding Jealousy and Ambition
- Reading Prompts
- 8. STRUCTURE
- White Space: The Fullness in Emptiness
- The Thing of It: Prose as Physical Object
- Structure Prompts
- 9. THE PRESENT MOMENT
- What is it Then Between Us?
- The Fragile Planet
- Present Moment Prompts
- 10. REVISION
- How to Build a Bicycle
- The Power of Do-Over
- Revision Prompts
- 11. WRITER’S BLOCK
- Postcards
- Note to Self
- Writer’s Block Prompts
- 12. BEAUTY
- Whatever is Lovely
- Three Ways of Looking at Beauty
- Beauty Prompts
- References
- Acknowledgements
