“Paradoxically, vividness of description and detail here comes at the expense of realism. To put it simply, no one besides a writer—a professional noticer—notices this much, and certainly not in a near instantaneous time frame; not in a “taking in.” There is no reason to. This style of writing, which…”Tagged: Being A Writer, Detail, Noticing Detail, Writer's Mind, Writing
“As with writing, the silence says as much, or more, than the word.”Tagged: Being A Writer, Detail, Noticing Detail, Writer's Mind, Writing
“Description is, in fact, more useful for what it says about the noticer than the noticed.”Tagged: Being A Writer, Detail, Noticing Detail, Writer's Mind, Writing