Unlock the Secret of the Rose: Transform Your Writing with Powerful Detail as Narrative
How my parents responded said volumes about who they were. And their behavior, of course, reverberated for me.
As writers of personal narrative know well, family provides some seriously rich subject matter.
It’s the lesson of the rose that I turn to most often when I begin a work of personal narrative. What is that one detail that brings that person or that moment to mind? It’s often the ink in our pen, the energy in our fingertips on those keys. Choosing one or two details that can work as a description and storyline thread can deepen both the writer’s — and the reader’s — understanding of that character in relation to the story.
