Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass

Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass

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Keeping the Secret Prompt (and a lesson from Meryl Streep)

Keeping the Secret Prompt (and a lesson from Meryl Streep)

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Meg Pokrass
Oct 22, 2024
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Keeping the Secret Prompt (and a lesson from Meryl Streep)
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Using language that is simple and clear, write about a moment of a truth between two conflicted characters. Most helpful is to offer your main character a secret. Meryl Streep says that when she’s researching a character she’s going to portray, she always gives the character some simple secret that no one on the set, none of the other actors, and none o…

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