POINT OF VIEW: Writing Is hard.
Have you ever seen the movie Somewhere in Time? It featured Superman’s Christopher Reeve in a heartbreaking time traveler’s tale that revolved around a single penny. Reeve’s character found a way to go back in time by surrounding himself entirely with objects from the past and willing himself back to their period. His undoing? A single modern penny, forgotten in his pants pocket, that ultimately shatters the illusion and sends him back to his own time. Writing is like that, especially writing stories of the past or the future. We all know the present well enough, but throw one bad … Read more