#Write30 – And Repeat

This is a writing exercise from Ursula K Le Guin called Structural Repetition.

Imagine a scene (in a new story or in your current WIP)  where one character does or says something and then later on in the scene another character echoes it, says or does the same thing in a different context or on a different scale or with different people.

• Don’t echo or repeat flatly one word across a sentence or a para.
• Distill down the motif and echo that.
• Events, reflections, images, repeating phrases emphasize theme.

“Every person had a star, every star had a friend, and for every person carrying a star there was someone else who reflected it, and everyone carried this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.” Orhan Pamuk, Snow

More examples here: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-motif.html