“Fiction evokes Emotion. Emotion is the glue that pulls all other disparate (and perhaps desperate) elements together,” Sol Stein said. I am editing in layers really…now that it’s down, I am fixing the structure, getting the sensory images right in my descriptions, and facing the challenge of getting the emotions right. How does a child express emotions..how do I get these evoked emotions across? I am taking the advice of T. S. Elliot on this one – trying to find ‘objective correlatives': a set objects, situations, a chain of events – as a formula in getting them across.

Who said this writing thing was easy?