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When I write, I hear music. In the words, that is. Some writers play favorite music in the background while writing. I don’t. It distracts me from hearing melodies as they emerge from the page. I can trace my awareness of word rhythms to the beginning of my professional writing career decades ago, in public […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/10/12/wordsong/feed/ 1 https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/07/08/time-travel/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/07/08/time-travel/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:35:25 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1927

This afternoon at 2:15, my husband and I were supposed to be on a plane taxiing from the gate on a long-planned trip abroad—our first significant excursion in three years. I had been dreaming of our destination even before the pandemic hit. Having waited patiently, venturing only as far as a day’s drive from home […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2022/07/08/time-travel/feed/ 2 https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/22/on-creating-a-voice/ https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/22/on-creating-a-voice/#respond Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:15:44 +0000 https://evelynherwitz.com/?p=1840

Of the many lessons learned over seven years of writing Line of Flight, one of the most challenging was figuring out the voice of my narrator, Simone Levitsky. I knew in my gut that I needed to tell the story from her point of view, and I wrote early drafts as her journal. It was […]]]> https://evelynherwitz.com/2021/11/22/on-creating-a-voice/feed/ 0