![]() ![]() Pick your “pencil” and don’t leave home without it. Before he knows it, he has the ingredients for a full-fledged story.Ĭartoonists who always carry pen and pad to sketch what they see, photographers who always have a camera in their pockets, composers who carry Dictaphones to capture a snatch of vagabond melody that pops into their heads. Sometimes, if he’s lucky, the writer attaches a complete biography to the face, and then a name, and then a narrative. Not only does the exercise warm up his descriptive powers, but studying the crags, lines, and bumps of a stranger’s face forces him to imagine that individual’s life. When he has a moment, he writes it all down in his notebook. What is your pencil? What is the one tool that feeds your creativity and is so essential that without it you feel naked and unprepared?Ī writer never leaves his apartment without reminding himself to “come back with a face.” Whether he’s walking down the street or sitting on a park bench or riding the subway or standing on a checkout line, he looks for a compelling face and works up a rich description of it in his mind. ![]()
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