And yet!

Another thing I like to talk about is how you can use a body inside a story to inspire physical sensation in the reader. Which might break the scene a bit as the read shudders themself write back into their living room (sometimes, not always), but it also puts the story itself into the real world. Where it can work some other kinds of magic.

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The panel was more about content than craft, tbh. But another reason I'm so into bodies on the page is they create dimension in a scene. There's this dynamic three-dimensional _someone_ moving through a space. And that aspect invites the reader to feel a scene as a space too. (Instead of just that string of one-word-at-at-a-time).

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I was on this panel about bodies & writing about them (I absolutely write about weird bodies!) and so we were talking about how a scene can often twist the chronic into the acute so it can be better comprehended. That's the same maybe with a body's function in a scene. This is a rambling thought.

But maybe, maybe, maybe, folks are interested in talking about how they use bodies (weird or less so) in their fiction?

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