Why I write by Stacy Pollack https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf Show vs tell en-us 2018-08-15 14:29:53 UTC 2018-08-16 15:19:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503260 By which I mean not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of
paper.]]> 2018-08-16 15:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503260 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503278   I am not a scholar ]]> 2018-08-16 15:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503278 "dining car, and the way the tinted windows on the Greyhound bus cast the oil refineries around Carquinez Straits into a graveyard and obscurely sinister light." https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503332 2018-08-16 15:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503332 I was only wondering if the lights were on in the bevatron https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503357 2018-08-16 15:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503357 Telling https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503388 "I can still recall the exact rancidity of the
butter in the City of San Francisco’s dining car,"]]> 2018-08-16 15:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503388 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503414  Grammar is a
piano I play by ear]]> 2018-08-16 15:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503414 "I can feel the asphalt stick to my sandals. I remember the big tailof a Pan American plane floating motionless down at the end of the tarmac. I rememberthe sound of a slot machine in the waiting room." https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503446 2018-08-16 15:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503446 Telling https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503503 I am talking quite specifically about images that shimmer around the edges]]> 2018-08-16 15:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503503 I can still recall the exact rancidity of thebutter in the City of San Francisco’s dining car, and the way the tinted windows on theGreyhound bus cast the oil refineries around Carquinez Straits into a grayed andobscurely sinister light. https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503528 2018-08-16 15:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503528 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503651 Like many writers I have only
this one “subject,” this one “area”: the act of writing.]]> 2018-08-16 15:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503651 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503870  I could tell you that I remember a
particular woman in the airport, an American woman, a norteamericana, a think
norteamericana about forty who wore a big square emerald in lieu of a wedding ring, but
there was no such woman there.
 ]]> 2018-08-16 15:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503870 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503882 "A young woman with long hair and a short white halter walks through the casino at the
Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning."]]> 2018-08-16 15:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503882 Shwoing https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503963  "I can feel the asphalt stick to my sandals."
She shows us that shes walking without formally saying it . ]]> 2018-08-16 15:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273503963 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504008 My attention veered inexorably back to the
specific, to the tangible, to what was generally considered, by everyone I knew then and
for that matter have known since, the peripheral]]> 2018-08-16 15:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504008 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504064 I put this woman in the airport later. I made this woman up, just as I later made
up a country to put the airport in, and a family to run the country. ]]> 2018-08-16 15:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504064 "you cant think too much about these picture that shimmer." https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504105 2018-08-16 15:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504105 some places were wet and hot and others were dry and hot, but at each of these airports the pastel concrete walls would rust and stain and the swamp off the runway would be littered with fuselages of cannibalized Fairchild F-227's and the water would need boiling. https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504126 2018-08-16 15:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504126 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504262  She is ordering tea in the airport
coffee shop ]]> 2018-08-16 15:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504262 Telling https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504374 In short I tried to think. I failed.]]> 2018-08-16 15:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504374 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504394  “Maria made a list of things she would never do."]]> 2018-08-16 15:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504394 The lightswent out. The elevator stopped. https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504484

]]> 2018-08-16 15:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504484 "let me show you what I mean by pictures in my mind." https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504793

]]> 2018-08-16 15:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504793 https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504958 I can feel my skirt damp and wrinkled on my legs. 

]]> 2018-08-16 15:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273504958 Showing https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273505445 You could see the molecular structure
breaking down at the very edges of the cat: the cat became the background and the
background the cat, everything interacting, exchanging ions. ]]> 2018-08-16 15:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273505445 I was only wondering if the lightswere on in the bevatron https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273506378 2018-08-16 15:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/stacy_pollack/jvwpbjfexryf/wish/273506378