#GuestPost Visualizing the Right Details by Carol Bodensteiner #writing

Visualizing just the right details
I admire writers who find just-right details to set a scene in time with perfect efficiency, to convey an emotion with power. Details that take me into the story without being heavy handed.
It could be a man wearing a gray felt fedora, a woman wearing a whale-boned corset, a cell phone the size of a shoebox. My host Rachelle picked such a detail for Michal’s Window when the protagonist used a brass surface as her mirror. A time before silvered mirrors! I knew...