T.S. Eliot and the Still Point

The Architecture of Time

I’ve been sitting with The Four Quartets as the shadows lengthen across my desk. Eliot had a singular obsession with time—how it traps us and how, through art, we might momentarily step outside of it. He writes of the “still point of the turning world,” that rare moment of absolute clarity.

As writers, we often chase the “turning”—the plot, the action, the noise. But the power of a scene often lies in the “still point.” It is that breath between sentences where the reader realizes the world has changed. To find that point, we must be willing to let our prose be quiet enough to hear the clock ticking.

The Monroe Minute
Identify the most “active” scene in your current draft. Insert one sentence of absolute stillness or internal observation right in the middle of the chaos.

Until the next page,
Sloane S. Monroe

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Sloane Shay Monroe

I don’t write to idealize love, but to explore it honestly, with emotional precision and depth.