Part of the Showing technique, part of making a reality of flat words on a page, is to imbue those words by using the senses – sight, sound,
touch, taste and smell.
In this excerpt from The Paintings I use ‘smell’ to break a run of terse dialogue via a mobile phone:
‘How’s it going? Done yet?’
I braced my shoulders in annoyance. ‘Done yet? We’re not liable to be done this week never
Published on February 25, 2015 00:00