Posts Tagged ‘sentiment’
A Sensitive Boy
My wife Cathy and I went to a production of Mamma Mia! at the local high school today. We didn’t know what to expect, but the performance turned out to be excellent. I was a little surprised—after all, high school musicals can be uneven—but what really stunned me was how emotional I got, not only…
Read MoreTechniques for Avoiding Melodrama and Sentimentality
One of my favorite stories is Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing.” This is the story of a couple, Ann and Howard Weiss, whose son, Scotty, on the morning of his eighth birthday, steps off a curb and gets hit by a car. He falls, striking his head, but he gets up and seems to…
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