
First Draft - Andrew Porter
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Energy of Night
I was just thinking as I was reading that about the energy of night and how it can be like fun and dynamic, like you say in that first paragraph. But then at the same time, it's like we somehow make it through the day and all the things that are unsettling within us just kind of purge out in the evenings. Right? You know, and a lot of the kind of confrontations that happen in the story also happen at night, right? And that's when some of the greatest tension arises as well. Like they are, they are hours of reckoning, like reckoning with one's own shortcomings or fears or the areas of the relationship that aren't working.
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