the post calvin

How to Trust Your Characters

Just because I have the power to create characters doesn’t mean I have the power to make them do whatever I want.

I should ask him his name, I thought. He somehow knows I don’t like coffee, and I don’t even know his name.

Of course, you also have to contend with the assigned theme sometimes.

We’ve tried ███████, ██████████, and ███████████. Where has that gotten us?

For all the pious academic talk about deep and careful reading, our fields run on quick glances and hurried skims.

His work looks like typing at his desk for hours, glancing between three different screens, and not speaking to anyone. It felt oddly familiar.

Consistency is the number one ingredient to being successful—eventually.

My students would keep me in the loop, right? They wouldn’t just say things and then refuse to explain them to me.

Minutes after it concludes, six Letterboxd reviews ranging from half to one-and-a-half stars appear in rapid succession.

At the outset of my twenties I needed a lot.