Wow, I was in a writing frenzy today! I feel great! As my advisor suggested, I focused on NOT overwriting. So, when I wrote a word that felt "wrong" such as got (I always told me student NOT to use that word), I left it there. I didn't try to replace it with a fancy word. Just tell the story, Tara...tell the story. Here is a small section of tonight's writing:
She had used rich colors – purples, blues, and the red. Red, the most important. The sea
blue swirls spiraled inward toward an emptiness that darkened in the center. The brush strokes were visible, deliberate. She could still remember how her hand had cramped as she held the brush tightly, circling again and again. Then there was the shades of red that outlined the indefinite shape in the upper right corner, the epitome of her world – where it began and where it ended. Beth traced the red outline with her finger, as she had done a thousand times.
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