Couplets Blog Tour: "Why Getting Small Details Right Matters," by Pat Valdata

My thanks today to my guest, Pat Valdata, for this post. Pat is both a poet and a novelist, and, when I told her this blog was geared primarily toward beginning writers, she immediately came up with the idea of sharing her thoughts on verisimilitude, the art of using details to create the illusion of reality. Read Pat's full bio and my review of her latest book, Inherent Vice , in my last post, here.

Why Getting Small Details Right Matters

by Pat ValdataI am reading a book in which one...