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If you wish to learn to write fiction, it helps if you’ve read a lot of it before you begin to try. And that in any case, you’ll likely need to spend a lot of time discovering how to try, and then a lot more time trying.
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
At the other extreme of the thought experiment, imagine you could time travel at will, as much as you wanted to, anywhere, anywhen in the universe. Would you busily go around rearranging all of history until you had an optimal timeline for the universe, designed entirely for your direct experiential pleasure in some sense? Or would you jump back to the Big Bang and simply live through the whole thing, occasionally fast-forwarding or sneaking a look ahead when you get impatient? Do you want to watch the movie or produce it? I’ll leave you to play with these ideas on your own, but I want to zoom in on one particular feature of life that immortality affords.
Crash Early, Crash Often
Venkatesh Rao
We all know, from experience, that life is a beautiful thing, an amazing gift. We also know that this gift can sometimes explode in our hands – the mind can go bad, circumstances can pile up against us, the body can betray us, and so on. So, stories – especially the trail of stories we leave behind us – might want to represent this complex truth.
On Darkness - Story Club With George Saunders
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