This time, I read Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons through writer’s eyes.
Here’s how he writes flashbacks:
#1. A situation, character, or object triggers a memory that takes you to the past.
“Langdon wanted to say something to her, offer his sympathy. He too had once felt the abrupt hollowness of unexpectedly losing a parent. He remembered the funeral mostly, rainy and gray…“
#2. A sound, character, or external element takes you to the present.
After describing Langdon’s father funeral,…“The ping of an elevator pulled Langdon back to the present.”
That’s exactly how we daydream or time travel: a snap or tap on the shoulder takes us back.
The right time to do something is when you don’t feel like doing it.
If you don’t feel like going to the gym, that’s when you should go.
Don’t feel like getting out of bed? That’s when you should count up to 3 and get up.
Don’t feel like writing? That’s when you should do it.
Today I didn’t feel like writing my daily post.
To spice things up, I challenged myself to write this draft without looking at the text.
I opened LibreOffice Writer, set the font to white, and wrote blindly.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1.Coding sucks (9min) It’s not like building a house, but like jumping into a ship, nobody knows where it goes…And no, AI didn’t take our jobs. It was something else.
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