![Michelle Forbes as Helena Cain in Razor
Details, details
In the story I’m writing the characters are discussing mosquito repellent, a detail I originally wrote in because they were on a deck in summer twilight. Turns out they have opinions that are much more interesting than what I’d planned for them.
This semester I’ve told several of my composition students something along the lines of “trust details, and they’ll tell you where to go” (in a cover letter, don’t say the Marines taught you leadership; say you led [x] number of Marines doing [y])—a variation on Nabokov’s “caress the divine detail,” of course, but, I thought, more practical and, um, socially appropriate?
I liked the cadence, too. Then I realized why it sounded familiar.Entertainment Weekly, what was the advice of Battlestar Galactica’s Admiral Cain?
”Hold on to that anger, and you keep it close. It’ll stop you being afraid the next time, and it’ll tell you what to do.”
So… next semester maybe I’ll refine my phrasing.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_latvnoLqep1qa0rqvo1_500.png)
Michelle Forbes as Helena Cain in Razor
Details, details
In the story I’m writing the characters are discussing mosquito repellent, a detail I originally wrote in because they were on a deck in summer twilight. Turns out they have opinions that are much more interesting than what I’d planned for them.
This semester I’ve told several of my composition students something along the lines of “trust details, and they’ll tell you where to go” (in a cover letter, don’t say the Marines taught you leadership; say you led [x] number of Marines doing [y])—a variation on Nabokov’s “caress the divine detail,” of course, but, I thought, more practical and, um, socially appropriate?
I liked the cadence, too. Then I realized why it sounded familiar.Entertainment Weekly, what was the advice of Battlestar Galactica’s Admiral Cain?
”Hold on to that anger, and you keep it close. It’ll stop you being afraid the next time, and it’ll tell you what to do.”
So… next semester maybe I’ll refine my phrasing.
