Karl Whitney: Some things I’ve noticed about writers noticing things

Good writers can take episodes from their daily lives and weave them seamlessly into their stories

Karl Whitney: 'Communicating to the reader what it was like to experience a certain place at a certain time is an underrated aspect of writing.'

Writers are professional noticers. What you see in print from them is a mere fraction of the noticing they get up to in their lives. 

They notice things about their friends, family, strangers. They notice things on the street. They notice things about fellow writers’ books that they won’t share in reviews. They can’t help themselves.