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Thursday, June 30, 2005
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Moments of Being Virginia Woolf had her own take on the Whoa! factor.
She assumes that the grind of daily life cuts us off from reality. But
on rare occasions the dull facade of our day cracks open and we are
shocked by a glimpse of what lies beyond. She called these "moments of
being." That's what writers should evoke for their readers.
When I first read this I tried to think about my own Moments of Being and captured one here...
[Writing]
8:54:57 PM 
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Whoa! factor How should a short story or essay affect you? What's the impact you
should aim for, if you're not simply writing jokes with a punchline?
I'm revising some short essays into radio scripts and trying to remind
myself.
In a 12/1/03 New
Yorker article, Louis Menand wrote that readers want an
outcome that is both expected and startling. A general sense of
Whoa! What James
Joyce calls an epiphany.
What
James Joyce meant..., he said, was just "a revelation of the whatness
of a thing" -- a sudden apprehension of the way the world unmediatedly
is.
[Writing]
7:03:29 AM
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