A case of narrative detail on deadline

Roy Rivenburg was a graduate student when he clipped and saved a Kathy Sawyer story about an execution. Now he interviews Sawyer, who says: "I’ve always tried to step back and see the overall arc and meaning of the story (the trendy word these days, I guess, is 'narrative') and decide where its heart lay. Then I would try to accumulate as many meaningful details as possible that would allow the readers to feel almost as if they were actually there along with me."

February 5, 2017

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