From The Forest for the Trees: “Everything you put on the page is a deliberate manipulation of what happened, written to keep the reader entertained, moved, sympathetic, horrified, scared, whatever. You are never writing what really happened. Instead, you are choosing words, building images, creating a rhythm, sense, and structure through which to move your …
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In Bits and Pieces: Writing My Way to Understanding
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. ~ from The Forest for the Trees, by Betsy Lerner There it is, my reason for writing. So much of what I scratch down on paper stays hidden within the pages of my journals, becomes buried in …
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