{"id":5932,"date":"2014-12-28T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:29:25","slug":"writing-tip-add-visualization-with-just-a-few-extra-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/writing-tip-add-visualization-with-just-a-few-extra-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing tip: add visualization with just a few extra words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a beautiful snippet of writing this morning. By adding several words about the woman who walks into the village carrying a tote, Shirley Rousseau Murphy transformed an abstract sentence into a visual treat replete with a subject who lays claim to habits, personality and wow\u00a0\u2013 even a history. I&#8217;ve never so clearly experienced the power of the power of visualization, until now. From Cat Breaking Free (2005, p 66):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe he&#8217;d wait until tomorrow, take the sensible route, lay low until Chichi walked into the village early, as she often did, carrying her big canvas tote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/writing-tip-add-visualization-with-just-a-few-extra-words\/screen-shot-2014-12-28-at-10-41-22-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5934\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-28-at-10.41.22-AM.jpg\" alt=\"woman carrying large canvas tote bag\" width=\"432\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5934\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-28-at-10.41.22-AM.jpg 432w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-28-at-10.41.22-AM-225x225.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-28-at-10.41.22-AM-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a beautiful snippet of writing this morning. By adding several words about the woman who walks into the village carrying a tote, Shirley Rousseau Murphy transformed an abstract sentence into a visual treat replete with a subject who lays claim to habits, personality and wow\u00a0\u2013 even a history. I&#8217;ve never so clearly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/writing-tip-add-visualization-with-just-a-few-extra-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing tip: add visualization with just a few extra words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,969],"tags":[1113,1644,1643],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-howto","tag-power","tag-visualization","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}