Mavis Gallant Interview

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues! Listen to Mavis Gallant talking about writing stories and fill in the blanks.
   

The first flash of arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image like a or closest to a freeze frame showing characters in a simple situation. Every character comes into with a name which I may change, an age, a nationality, a profession, a particular voice and , a family background, a personal history, a destination, qualities, secrets, an toward love, ambition, money, religion, and with a private centre of gravity. After the first of the story and your first sort of vision of people in which I have already described to you, the next thing that comes, perhaps a couple of days later, is a flow of dialogue. They speak and I don’t hear the exact . How to explain this! I’m trying to explain something that can’t be but I know what they are talking about and I know what they are saying. I know what they’re saying. Even if it’s in language or whatever, I know what they’re saying.