Whenever I work, I ask myself—and my students: What would Didion do?
That’s when I started to become a writer. Slowly, I grasped her secret of writing for the future. I also learned about condensing story. It appears that Didion sat through Lucille Miller’s trial that spanned many days for “Some Dreamers,” but there are only a few paragraphs in that monumental essay from inside the courtroom. A lesser writer would have focused most of the piece on the trial.
”, a collection of essays I’m writing that is a work-in-progress. I write in the draft, “We are told that when we dream of watching a man climbing out on to the rotting branch of a tall barkless dead tree, one hundred feet off the ground, we are really looking at ourselves. We are that man who is upside down, koala bear–style, shimmying farther and farther toward the fragile bone-white tip. The branch is going to break and he is going to plunge to his death.
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