Explanation of Technique:
This technique requires adding a lot of details that makes the reader want to read more. Using this method you can make something happened in one sec in five pages.
What makes this a moment of GENIUS:
SE Hinton fantastically describes the way Ponyboy was feeling that very second. Having cinders and embers fall on you takes about .5 seconds but, Hinton describes it so much, it fills up a full page. This shows that in her moment of genius she uses the method stretching time. This is when you use something that happens in a short amount of time and you stretch it out, using many details. This moment of genius shows is something about Ponyboy, at this vey moment he wasn’t scared. He had been freightless. Also, SE Hinton shows a simile. “The cinders and ember began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants.” Hinton is comparing the stinging and smarting ants.
How can we borrow writerly technique:
1. Find a piece of action
2. Read it over (the first time)
3. Add detail that can make the writing intense
4. Read it over (the second time)
5. Add even more detail so the reader feels like they are in the book
6. (repeat if necessary)
This technique requires adding a lot of details that makes the reader want to read more. Using this method you can make something happened in one sec in five pages.
What makes this a moment of GENIUS:
SE Hinton fantastically describes the way Ponyboy was feeling that very second. Having cinders and embers fall on you takes about .5 seconds but, Hinton describes it so much, it fills up a full page. This shows that in her moment of genius she uses the method stretching time. This is when you use something that happens in a short amount of time and you stretch it out, using many details. This moment of genius shows is something about Ponyboy, at this vey moment he wasn’t scared. He had been freightless. Also, SE Hinton shows a simile. “The cinders and ember began falling on us, stinging and smarting like ants.” Hinton is comparing the stinging and smarting ants.
How can we borrow writerly technique:
1. Find a piece of action
2. Read it over (the first time)
3. Add detail that can make the writing intense
4. Read it over (the second time)
5. Add even more detail so the reader feels like they are in the book
6. (repeat if necessary)