Unlocking Time: How Jumping Timelines Can Revolutionize Your Writing Craft
When writers open themselves up to work with the spiral of time, they gain access to the past, present and future simultaneously.
What is the spiral of time?
“What is this spiral I speak of?” you may be asking. I, like many, moved through my understanding of time as I was given more tools and terminology to lean on. I used to refer to time as cyclical. A circle. Things repeat. We returned over and over. Like the seasons (winter to spring, spring to summer, summer to fall, fall to winter) we move through time always returning to a beginning. It seemed like a good enough way to explain how I saw time. It wasn’t until I lived in Aotearoa/New Zealand with the koru image (the unfurling frond) that I started to see spirals differently. Later, in my MFA, I would pull the spiral of time into my writing and my scholarship returning to Oceania for insights and clarity.
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