Comments on: I’ve found a book http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/06/23/ive-found-a-book/ "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." Annie Dillard Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:53:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cynthia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/06/23/ive-found-a-book/#comment-662 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:25:21 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2764#comment-662 Tricia, my fifty thousandth re-write is exactly where I try to focus on the moments.

Someone (I think Dani Shapiro but probably many people) said that the important unit of time for fiction is the moment.

Mary Gordon said (in one of my workshops) that first we needed to identify the important moments in our story or novel. Then we need to “saturate them” by describing the details, the surroundings, the physicality, that make that moment fully present to the nerve endings.

I love rereading my notes. I get something out of it every single time. Don’t you just love writing?
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]]> By: cynthia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/06/23/ive-found-a-book/#comment-660 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:07:06 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2764#comment-660 Our little rituals are interesting. Lighting a candle is one of my strange ones. I now travel with these small candle tins. Do you have any interesting rituals?

]]> By: Tricia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/06/23/ive-found-a-book/#comment-645 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:02:59 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2764#comment-645 On my fifty thousandth re-write, I am focusing on attention to detail: taking my time with each moment in the story. My writing moves too fast and bumpy. I need to read books like this one to encourage depth and scene setting.

]]> By: Kimberly Davis http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/06/23/ive-found-a-book/#comment-643 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:20:39 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=2764#comment-643 Great post. Interesting, the rituals that make a writer . . ..

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