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Introduction

Writers make the blind see. We are talking about readers here. Readers see only what writers show them. I tell my students this, adding that luckily readers can see photographs and it is their job to make good photographs.

Then we get down to business, and I run through a drill that goes something like this.

“Let’s make some pictures: Read these words:  Car—What do you see? Woman—What do you see?  Baby—What do you see?”

“Let’s make some moving pictures. What do you see now? The woman drives the car. The baby smiles.”

I tell them that these are general pictures,  Continue Reading →