- Working title
- The Scrap
- Situation
- The narrator makes notes while doing something else and later trusts the scrap more than the organised draft.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- They are circling the suspicion that the accidental version was closer to the truth.
- Concrete detail
- A sentence written beside a shopping list, with one word squeezed between two crossed-out items.
- Emotional pressure
- The pressure lies between properly planning the work and recognising that the rough note has more life in it.
- Suggested first sentence
- I wrote the better sentence while doing something else.