Oh Lois Lowry, how your magical writing inspires me!
I feel the touch, the touch of the author's hand. It is stronger in me than it has been in a long time. I haven't felt this clear about a path in writing since I wrote a short story called The Loose Thread. I wrote it in one edit*. And there it was for all to see.
*I have since edited the story here and there so don't ever think anyone is that good. But at the time, I went over and over and over it and could find little to edit in the story. I will say that the majority of edits with that story were grammatical errors and sentence structure.
Do you have a moment, a tempered flash of when that clarity hits? It is a rare thing and I feel led by a hand other than my own. I merely try to keep up.
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