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For me, writing is musical. It’s also a quest for precision. How do I channel these images and feelings in my mind and heart into words on the page? Metaphor is, of course, one way to get there, through the back door of memory. Emotional associations with a sound, a smell, a sight or taste […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2023/05/05/resonance/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/02/16/in-their-words/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/02/16/in-their-words/#respond Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:53:35 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1886

For anything I’ve ever written, be it fiction or non-fiction, my favorite research is always sifting through primary sources. There is something about reading materials that are unfiltered by someone else’s editorial judgment, in their original form, that gives me chills, as if I’m connecting across time and space to another person’s soul. My research […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/02/16/in-their-words/feed/ 0 https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/12/in-the-trenches/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/12/in-the-trenches/#respond Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:30:44 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1740

You can travel the world on the internet, but you can only go so far. About nine months into writing the first draft of my WWI novel, including a 20,000-word false start, I realized that I needed to see and feel the landscapes that existed only in my imagination. Books and online research were my […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/12/in-the-trenches/feed/ 0