Creative Writing 101:
Show don’t tell. Paint the barn. I make a list of the places I’ve lived since you have known me: a tiny white-walled room, the floor covered with books and clothes; an empty house where I watched you watch me come back from my run as the sun was setting over the abalone bay. Now: nowhere; everywhere.
Make a start of the particulars. But suppose the usual particular doesn’t matter?
San Francisco. Brooklyn. Homer. Provincetown. Seattle. Kansas.
Even the verbs aren’t singular: Taste. Claw. Love. Speak. Call.
The specific comes in how we use the words.
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