S is for Story by Esther Hershenhorn

Author:Esther Hershenhorn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2009-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

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Your writer’s job is to pay attention to the world around you.

Use your five senses to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. Raise your writer’s antennae to notice and discover, to become aware.

Be sure to note your observations in your Writer’s Notebook. One might spark a story. Watching how her cats and dogs talked to one another inspired Sheila Burnford to write The Incredible Journey. Another Ah–ha! observation might find its way into a poem. Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins says, “Good poems make us say, ‘Yes, that’s just how it is!’”

Observations become sensory details, giving your reader that “You are there!” feeling: the musty smell of an abandoned room, the hush of a crowd, a wool sock’s scratch and itch.

A keen observer from childhood on, President Theodore Roosevelt charged through his days, living life to the fullest. His observations filled nature notebooks, travel journals and personal diaries, over 150,000 letters, and twenty books.

“The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower…..”

—Kate DiCamillo

Then O? It’s for the verb Observe, a writer’s job when out, to see, to hear, to taste, touch, smell, to sense the world about.

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