Wisdom and Wisdom Teeth: Against Relatability
Karen Babine discusses the craft work of how we turn story into experience. What is the human experience that you want to convey with this page? Are you trying to say something about love, loss, delight, or fear? Where is the writer trying to find the universal in the specific? She adds that, "When we shift away from story toward experience, we’ve activated the energies that cause connection on the page. I’ve been in search of what should replace relatability in our conversations about the page, to wield our tools with a little more precision to take a text from relatable, to relevant, and if we’re lucky, to work that resonates."