The Truth Under the Story
Paid Subscriber Prompt
One of the most powerful things we can do as writers is learn to listen beneath the surface of our own stories.
Most of us begin with what happened.
We write the event, the conversation, the loss, the decision, the move, the ending, the beginning. We describe the facts. We explain the circumstances. We try to help the reader understand the timeline.
But the story usually becomes meaningful when we move past what happened and begin asking what it meant.
