Writer's Block: Back to the Future
Feb. 20th, 2012 08:50 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Two thoughts on this, particularly if I could have control and do both:
Future: If I could avoid any kind of paradox, I would travel a few months into my future, to see if I get approved for disability benefits, to see when I finish The Novel and if it would become published, to see how life will turn out in general, to see what's happening with my health and my husband's health and my friends' lives. I would then travel several decades further, to see how the country and the world is turning out.
Past: If I could avoid any kind of paradox, I would travel about six months into my past, to warn myself to save more money, to continue working with the specific companies who'd hired me for freelance copyediting, to not worry so much about finishing The Novel, to write and finish specific short stories within a better time.
Really, what I would want more than time travel would be clairvoyance and precognition that I can control, especially if I can see within my own personal timeline. I am terrified of the Unknown, which is the source of most of my anxiety disorders. The Unknown would include the normal human concerns: Health, finance, creature comforts, personal success, surviving. My OCD and ADD, while both mild, tend to make the anxiety worse, leading to me making choices that I probably shouldn't, or the exact opposite. Therapy and medication and holistic treatments help immensely, but mistakes will always be made. I am absolutely one of those people who enjoy spoilers, and one who would absolutely want to know the future, to make more smart choices and less stupid choices.
Two thoughts on this, particularly if I could have control and do both:
Future: If I could avoid any kind of paradox, I would travel a few months into my future, to see if I get approved for disability benefits, to see when I finish The Novel and if it would become published, to see how life will turn out in general, to see what's happening with my health and my husband's health and my friends' lives. I would then travel several decades further, to see how the country and the world is turning out.
Past: If I could avoid any kind of paradox, I would travel about six months into my past, to warn myself to save more money, to continue working with the specific companies who'd hired me for freelance copyediting, to not worry so much about finishing The Novel, to write and finish specific short stories within a better time.
Really, what I would want more than time travel would be clairvoyance and precognition that I can control, especially if I can see within my own personal timeline. I am terrified of the Unknown, which is the source of most of my anxiety disorders. The Unknown would include the normal human concerns: Health, finance, creature comforts, personal success, surviving. My OCD and ADD, while both mild, tend to make the anxiety worse, leading to me making choices that I probably shouldn't, or the exact opposite. Therapy and medication and holistic treatments help immensely, but mistakes will always be made. I am absolutely one of those people who enjoy spoilers, and one who would absolutely want to know the future, to make more smart choices and less stupid choices.