Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
- Harvey Mackay
Time involves a sequence of events moving forward. Irreversible, it flows from past through present to future. We measure it in segments and seasons. A variety of instruments reveal it: clocks, wrist watches, computer monitors, cell phones..
We learn time is of the essence. It waits for no one. We're admonished not to waste time. Staying on time becomes a challenge. Wisdom arrives when we learn about life's timing.
Writers expel ideas in the moment. We can speed or slow sentences and paragraphs to create mood and provide intensity to capture the reader. Decades can exist in pages. In a chapter, time shrinks, expands or gets pruned as irrelevant. Poems and stories jump forward, backwards, even sideways. Characters might move in parallel time exploring worlds beyond the present.
How do animals relate to time?
How would you write about time? Let the above concerns spark your notions.
Write to make the reader lose track of time.
Write to make the reader lose track of time.
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