- Working title
- The Sentence I Kept
- Situation
- The narrator is deleting old drafts and finds one sentence they still like more than the finished pieces around it.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- They are circling the fact that some old work failed, but not all of it was wasted.
- Concrete detail
- A folder of drafts with dates in the titles, one line copied into a new blank document and several files deleted without being opened.
- Emotional pressure
- The pressure comes from wanting proof that the previous effort still counts.
- Suggested first sentence
- I started deleting old drafts because it looked like work.