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Describe a car accident from three different perspectives: One driver as the accident happens, a witness immediately after the accident, and the at-fault driver a week later. How does the story change? How do different voices affect the narrative? Pay attention to sensory details: What sounds do you hear when the collision happens? What does the air smell like after the accident? What do the drivers feel upon impact?
Feeling overwrought by a lack of writing time? Finding time to write is about figuring out what works best for you & your passion.
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
What I learned from veteran writers at a panel on essays.
