Ideas and flashes of insight (often ones I've had before) written down so I can remember and use them. And a reminder to focus on occasion.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
New lessons, too
I'll also write about things that I think I've never learned before, or have had reinforced in new ways, when I've had opportunities to learn.
Had one of those yesterday at a writing workshop that followed a morning of planting cedar trees. First workshop I've ever taken with muddy knees.
Ana Marie Spagna told us that the best stories tell more than one story at once, and I heartily agree.
She also disagreed somewhat with one if the basic bits of advice many of us have been given: conflict, conflict, conflict!
Her take is that literary fiction can be about connections. I liked that, because what I remember from many of the deeply significant works I've read has not been the conflict -- which often existed -- but the connections forced or forged during the process. Conflict at some level was doubtless part of the work, but the focus was the connection.
That was something I don't believe I've learned elsewhere before, but I'm sure someone will remind me otherwise at some point.
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