Defamiliarisation: Challenge #1 physical/emotional description
with a challenge to write and share a line of physical description
The end of art is to give a sensation of the object seen, not as recognized. The technique of art is to make things 'unfamiliar,' to make forms obscure, so as to increase the difficulty and the duration of perception. -Victor Shklovsky
As flash fiction writers our job is to strange-things-up, to defamiliarise, and to make them interesting. To cast light on a character’s experience with an unforgettable lens.
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