Unlocking the Secrets of Masterful Storytelling: A Deep Dive into ‘The Lab’ by Davison and LaPlante
Readers/writers/scientists will find something like 90, tucked within ten robust chapters and 450 pages. This is a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual, and good for all writers of all levels; it’s quite literally everything Davison and LaPlante have been obsessing over their entire writing and teaching career.
Because this great-grandmother fixation knocked loudly, begging to become something artful, a book of some kind, I felt desperate to choose a container. Or did I? Davison and LaPlante suggest discovering or deepening what needs to be said by just ‘getting something on the page.’ The entire premise of The Lab is based on the desire to create. How fitting for a creative work investigating ancestors and their descendants? How true and right to combine my obsession with their lives, which through the alchemy of time, place, and love, created me, a vessel for their stories? Not because I wanted to be avant-garde, or defiant, or artful, I chose to work past known forms into something else, something hybrid. The goal, at least for me, was to follow the pattern of discovery while musing-over-the-facts of ancestry. Ancestry and writing, after all, are forms of creation.
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