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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