{"id":14011,"date":"2025-09-09T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=14011"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:05:55","slug":"zoom-in-then-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/zoom-in-then-linger\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom In, Then Linger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Camera-lens.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14013\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethangilsdorf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ethan Gilsdorf<\/a> on Zooming In and Lingering:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn personal essay, memoir and creative nonfiction, we want to bring to our pages a sense of verisimilitude, of intruding upon someone else\u2019s circumstances, of grasping someone else\u2019s fleeting take on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to do this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilsdorf suggests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe language of cinematography is a useful analogy: in a wide or medium shot, the viewer is distant from the subject; in close-ups and extreme close-ups, the frame of reference is tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In writing, this means: rather than quickly cutting away, or keeping the viewer far removed, like a drone hovering high above, we can zoom in on the subject of our attention, or pan across it, slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can train our writerly efforts to pause. To not skip over\u2014 but to linger, loiter, dawdle, stay put, wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpted from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/brevity.wordpress.com\/2025\/03\/17\/stay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stay a Little Bit Longer: The Art of Zooming In and Lingering<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/brevity.wordpress.com\/2025\/03\/17\/stay\/\">,\u201d<\/a> The Brevity Blog, March 17, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Gilsdorf on Zooming In and Lingering: \u201cIn personal essay, memoir and creative nonfiction, we want to bring to our pages a sense of verisimilitude, of intruding upon someone else\u2019s circumstances, of grasping someone else\u2019s fleeting take on the world.\u201d How to do this? Gilsdorf suggests: \u201cThe language of cinematography is a useful analogy: in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[2093,2058,1190],"class_list":["post-14011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers","tag-ethan-gilsdorf","tag-the-brevity-blog","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3DZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14015,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14011\/revisions\/14015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}