The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction

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While my YouTube habits tend to send me into the Typosphere, my girlfriend frequently watches videos pertaining to RV life. She recently watched a video that extolled some essentials for BLM camping. One particular item was the solar-powered Luci light. They come in different colors and intensities, and, after a good day of charging in…

Today was the first day of classes. All in all, they went well. First days are always a bit stuffy: cover the major parts of the syllabus and discuss the schedule, assignments, and expectations. A bit boring, but clarity is important. This evening I put some work into revamping my writing area. The plot in…

Revising work to make life easier. Link to freshman writing course: https://enc1101composition.wordpress.com

Suspension of disbelief in fiction is tricky. What logic or laws of reality is one willing to put aside for the sake of story? I personally find myself become less and less tolerant of stories that abuse such rules without a good reason to do so. Sometimes genre comes with its own exceptions. How often…

The question, as always, is how to begin a story. This question is further complicated by the time-travel genre. One way or another, narrative threads will overlap. A character hurled into the past, intentionally or accidentally, is aware of a future. Some element of the narrative is inherently retrospective, even if that character’s current circumstances…