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Write This, Not That
Part 5 of 5: Tips for taking your fiction to the next level.
Part 5: A Matter of Time
“Gee, Joolz, what are we gonna do tonight?”
“The same thing we do every night, Writer. Try to take over the writing world.”
Our senses tell us that time flows . . . passing from the right here and right now into the undecided future, every moment ends up in the same fixed past.
The perception of time is one of — if not the most — basic of human perceptions. We tend to think the concept of time can be proven by things like clocks or age spots.
We ‘experience’ ourselves living from one moment to the next.
Yet, the deep (and devastating) truth is that nothing in known physics corresponds to the passage of time.
It’s true.
Neither scientists nor philosophers understand what time is or why it exists . . . or appears to exist.
But don’t panic! It’s probably just that scientists haven’t discovered the key quality that gives time its sense of timeliness.
Yup, we’ll go with that one.
Time is legit. Don’t panic.
Scientists just haven’t figured out the science behind it yet.
