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A swim on the pond in the rain5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() “Good writerly habit might consist of continually revising towards specificity, so that specificity can then produce plot. “Who cares if a first draft is good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it.” “You don’t need an idea to start a story. Character can’t keep doing the same thing, must be slightly more specific. Story form reminds us that a human is never static or stable. Ritual banality avoidance - deny yourself the crappo version of the story - remove a character? - in hopes a better story comes along. “Would a reasonable person reading line four, get enough of a jolt to go to line five?” The rest of the story is catching those pins.” “In the first pulse of a story, the writer is like a juggler, throwing bowling pins into the air. Each one belongs somewhere on the spectrum between quote and paraphrase. The notes below were copied into a notebook. The book collects seven Russian short stories and Saunders’ lessons on reading and writing based on those stories. Adam shares his notes from George Saunders’ book A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. ![]()
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