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# What Is Close Reading?
- URL: https://www.themomentbefore.co.uk/what-is-close-reading/
- Published: 2026-09-17T19:36:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T21:10:31.000Z
- Description: A short introduction to close reading — how slowing a scene down and noticing movement, blocking, silence, timing, and objects can reveal what changes beneath the words.
- Author: The Moment Before
- Tags: #practice

Close reading is slowing a scene down and paying attention to what changes — movement, blocking, objects, silence, timing, and what the body does from one beat to the next.

Those details become evidence. From that evidence, we can begin to understand what a character may be feeling without the words having to say it.

Sometimes the mask slips. Sometimes the scene reaches a hinge — the moment where control shifts and everything that follows is different.

This is what I saw. What did you see?