This is why I so value my critique partners. Since I see my story playing out as a movie in my head, I sometimes fail to see that I’ve forgotten to convey some important bit of information to enable my readers to “see” it too. I’m always grateful when this lack is pointed out to me.

Lindsay, it is exciting, isn’t it? I’m actually looking forward to finding my next “breach.”

Also so true that the weakness becomes a door or a window into the work–a new way of looking at it. (And Matisse loved doors and windows.) Now instead of just “fixing” the problem, I’ll ask myself more questions: if this isn’t right, what is that saying about what precedes it OR is this not right or is what comes before it not right.

And again, I don’t know why I didn’t see the possibilities for life. A weakness of mine, apparently. And what is that saying to me?

I do too. It’s almost a new way of thinking. It takes me above the small thing to looking at the whole in a new way. The breach becomes possibility rather than problem. And I hadn’t even thought about applying this to life….

Yes it does make sense. I have a problem with this as well. It seems I either go on too long or don’t say enough. And we do want the reader to participate by doing some of the work–finishing the shape so to speak. I think I’m finally making a little progress, though. As I read these days, I’m starting to notice when I “get” something and the writer is still going.