Daily Nourishment for March 30, 2024: A Revision Exercise for Holy Saturday from Lauren Winner
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
“A day of in-between-ness. A day of not yet.” - Lauren Winner
Pause.
Take six deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale while looking at this art.
Prompt.
The words below and in the Practice section are from a revision exercise designed by Lauren Winner. This is an example of what will be offered during today’s Revision Stations gathering.
“We know how Holy Saturday ends - that it leads to, and turns to, Easter Sunday. But the story’s original “characters” did not know what would follow from Holy Saturday. On Saturday, they only knew the present tense - Jesus in the ground.” - Lauren Winner
Practice.
A Revision Exercise for a Work-in-Progress:
“Take a moment to consider how your piece of writing plays with present and future knowledge. Pick a character from your piece and write that character in a scene two ways - in the present tense with no knowledge about what comes later, no knowledge of possible reversals, and incomplete knowledge of the stakes; and then in the long future, retrospectively, with many different knowledges about the scene than the character had when the scene actually happened.” - Lauren Winner
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