A Single Line
My friend Susan wrote something in the last day or two about wanting to write 'true sentences' (I may be paraphrasing - sorry, Su!) and how valuable they can be within a work.
Just now, I came across an offshoot of that: how (to me), sometimes writing a single line can make the ENTIRE BOOK worth laboring over. On THE INDIGO KING, I really thought it would be the one about the badgers not playing with the time machine. But I think it might in fact be this one:
He’d expected more of a fight than this - but if the Lawgiver was yielding so quickly, then perhaps his true kingliness had shown through, and he was cowing them.
'Cowing' may be my favorite new word.
Just now, I came across an offshoot of that: how (to me), sometimes writing a single line can make the ENTIRE BOOK worth laboring over. On THE INDIGO KING, I really thought it would be the one about the badgers not playing with the time machine. But I think it might in fact be this one:
He’d expected more of a fight than this - but if the Lawgiver was yielding so quickly, then perhaps his true kingliness had shown through, and he was cowing them.
'Cowing' may be my favorite new word.