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5. Try Telescoping
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
—Eliel Saarinen,
quoted by his son Eero,
in Time magazine, June 2, 1977
You focused tightly to write your ‘bird.’ Now pull back and look at the branch, the tree, the yard, the house, the neighborhood, the city....
Pull back as far as you need to see the entire context of the passage you worked on yesterday. What came before? What carried through the bit you wrote? What stretches beyond?
You will probably see more to do in your narrative than you know how to do right this minute. Make notes to help you remember what those things are. Then focus the telescope and zoom in on a new bird.
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