If something....

[Paul Whybrow]

If something in your narrative or poem is important, give it proportional space. I mean, actual inches. The reader has to spend time with a subject to care about it. Don’t shy away from your big scenes; stretch them out.

Annie Dillard

(from Image Journal)

 

[Katie-Ellen]

An agent once said to me about a death scene I had written in a short story, to draw it out longer, go into gruesome details. It was the climax of the story.