What makes a moment worth capturing? And then, how do we try to capture it? This is this week's concern. Choosing the singular moment/object/event is an essential consideration... and after that choice... that is where the real work begins.
Do we tell the importance of the moment by delivering it in full story mode? As EB White offers a trip with his son (p. 473-80)?
Do we use internal monologue/imagined conversation to show how a moment works inside the mind as in Laura Riding Jackson (p 357-360)?
Will you describe your encounter with an object and let the object speak through you? As WC Williams-- (p 231-36)?
A play by play--chronological with dialogue and description and a single paragraph of existential horror embedded somewhere in the middle? As in Orwell-- http://www.george-orwell.org/A_Hanging/0.html
Do we write a philosophical meditation on a common occurrence to elevate and magnify the mundane into beauty? As in Woolf-- https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter1.html
Or as Murakami does-- http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/22131227213/on-seeing-the-100-perfect-girl-one-beautiful
Whatever you choose to do-- consider using sensory detail and note (to yourself... take note... be aware of) where/how/how long you choose to spend time *with* the external moment and when you deviate through *speculation* and *meditation* or *association* to other times and places.
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