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• Lesson 5 - carry a cat
• Assignment 5

There were no cuckoos, no sycamores
We played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maples, the balsams and the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions
Assuming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on the riverbank
And grew up by and by, and grew up by and by
(Anna McCarrigle - from Goin' back to Harlan, and the version that thrills me every time is Emmylou Harris's on Wrecking Ball)

Lesson 5 - carry a cat

I'm not quite sure what happened in this lesson. I took very few notes:

• Don't give observations to people that they couldn't actually make eg small person seeing bald patch of tall person
• Telling of a story: narrator, characters, author
• Psychic distance (did I hear right?): start landscape, drill down, use description which might apply to narrator or character
• 1st person: think about what the character sees, not what the author sees. Make POV choices and stick to them
• Don't put the important part of a description last eg hat, boots, clothing, gun!
• "Walk in the space" when you write
• Don't mix metaphors - use any metaphors consistently

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