- Working title
- The Detail
- Situation
- The narrator decides whether a personal detail belongs on the site or should be kept out.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- They are circling the line between honesty, oversharing and making a useful piece of writing.
- Concrete detail
- A paragraph with one bracketed sentence marked ‘maybe too much’.
- Emotional pressure
- The pressure comes from wanting the writing to feel true without giving the reader more than they need.
- Suggested first sentence
- I could leave the detail out, and most people would not know it had ever been there.