Twenty-five years ago, millions around the world huddled in the quiet dark on New Year’s Eve, afraid to leave anything plugged in: The Y2K bug threatened to disrupt the world’s computers when they tried to switch from 19-something (1999) to 20-something (2000). Maybe electrical circuits would explode, maybe electronics would garble or fry. The world’s […]
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Technique for Multi-POV
June 30, 2024 by
“Find your own voice.” “Make each character unique, with no stereotypes.” “Create a meaningful arc for the main character, as someone the reader can root for.” These imperatives appear, over and over, in courses for writers. I’m noticing that our atmosphere of complex cultural chaos – in the news, online, among friends and family, and […]
Timeless Willy-Nilly
January 11, 2024 by
Missing, as I do now, the familiar comfort of resting in the recent “story” of Solstice – a sense of self-location in the vastness of space, a real reason for less, then more, daylight – or the “story” of the Gregorian calendar, which claimed to finish an old tale, to begin a new one – […]