*	1) Hornets drowned slowly in bourbon. Not really, its a brand of tequila. 2) 1952 Ford Convertible. 3) It grows to upwards of 600 feet long in Kentucky. 4) Mr. McCartney is a lefty.

 

What is the difference between a man who gets into a car, and a man who slides into a powder blue '52 Ford convertible with fins?

Well, maybe nothing, but you might be willing to read the story just to make sure.

Detail is important to writing. Without it the reader just moves from one fact to the next. With it she goes from Pipsqueak, a town so small there is no room for mosquitoes, to the emerald city of Oz. Detail is made up of close observation, imagination, and bits and pieces of a million different things and ideas. Trivia, in other words. The flotsam and jetsam that floats around in our heads. Now finally, we have a use for all that:

We have gathered it to enrich our writing.