Unlocking Time: How Jumping Timelines Can Revolutionize Your Writing Craft
I encourage you today, please play with time in your writing. It will open up spaces beyond your wildest dreams and may just give you the connection(s) you’ve been looking for all along. Don’t feel confined by the linear narrative. It was never here to serve us but to keep us in check. Break free. Experience time how it presents itself to you. And above all, keep writing. Your story is important.
Meet the Contributor
Rebecca Beardsall (MA, Lehigh University; MFA, Western Washington University) is the author of the memoirs “The Unfurling Frond” and “My Place in the Spiral.” She co-edited three books, including “Philadelphia Reflections: Stories from the Delaware to the Schuylkill.” Her poetry and essays have appeared in Thimble, Origyns, SWIMM, West Texas Review, Two Cities Review, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, Crab Fat, Poetry NZ and Rag Queen Periodical. She is the owner of Lit Illuminated, a space that offers a range of ways to explore literature and the writing life. She hosts workshops, MFA-style seminars, independent studies, memoir coaching and mentorship, and a podcast. She grew up in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and has lived in various places, including Scotland, Canada, Montana and Aotearoa/New Zealand. She currently resides in Bellingham, Washingston – the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed from time immemorial. Find her at: rebeccabeardsall.com.
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