Amanda Lindhout

Since Feeling is First: Elements of Craft to Express Emotion
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Since Feeling is First: Elements of Craft to Express Emotion

Emotions, feelings, desires—whatever you choose to call them—are central to writing. e.e. cummings wrote “since feeling is first / who pays any attention / to the syntax of things / will never wholly kiss you.” But how do we pay attention to syntax while retaining feeling? There are countless elements of craft to aid the…