The Benefits of Writing in Layers

Prep your scenes like a painter for added depth

Photo by Gustavo Leighton on Unsplash

Last month I led a writing retreat with four writers, two working on fiction and two on memoir, in France. We spent a week together in the Haute Savoie, with Mont Blanc in the distance, and yes, it was heaven, yet somehow each morning we managed to focus intently on the work in front of us, and I was able to exercise my…