So helpful, Stephanie. Thank you. I'm especially drawn to "consenting to paradox" right now. Rather than pick a side (among the sides arguing it out in my brain), I'm bringing their battle into the light and onto the page.
I really like this idea: "There’s an art to anticipating your reader’s response, and meeting them there. How Saunders put it: get inside what your reader is thinking, enough to say, “Let me take that on.” It is a powerful thing to let the reader see you seeing them, and this is the witness that earns their sacred trust."
But what in the world does it look like in practice? Is it something that naturally flows once you have a good handle who your audience is?
His book "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain" has quickly become my go-to book on writing. So cool you got to see him in town!
So helpful, Stephanie. Thank you. I'm especially drawn to "consenting to paradox" right now. Rather than pick a side (among the sides arguing it out in my brain), I'm bringing their battle into the light and onto the page.
So many good nuggets here!
So much goodness here. Thank you!
Thank you for this!!
I really like this idea: "There’s an art to anticipating your reader’s response, and meeting them there. How Saunders put it: get inside what your reader is thinking, enough to say, “Let me take that on.” It is a powerful thing to let the reader see you seeing them, and this is the witness that earns their sacred trust."
But what in the world does it look like in practice? Is it something that naturally flows once you have a good handle who your audience is?
“You don’t want your gravestone to read, ‘Avoided that which he most wanted to do because it was too hard.’” OOF.