Thought of the day: Maine is actually a place made up by Stephen King . But if it were to correspond to a real place, it would be the Pacific Northwest
If you could go back in time and change anything in your life, would you?
You know something now about how the future will turn out. And if you go back in time, you have the opportunity to bring that knowledge and follow a different route back to the present.
Sit down, my friend, at the big table. Let’s deal you in this hand of Texas Hold ‘em. In the pocket: two spades, a Ten and a Queen. And what’s that? Some blinds and a non-eventful round of betting later, and the community cards are dealt: Jack, King, Ace. All Spades.
Royal Flush. You have a winning hand. That future is irrefutable.
What happens between now and then? What do you do while waiting for the prophesied event to take place?
You profit.
...Two of the world’s most beloved and most respected pieces of media in their fields: Casablanca (1943) and Cowboy Bebop (1997-1998). There is the story of eponymous café-owner and World War II isolationist residing in Casablanca, Morocco: Rick. And there is the jazz-themed science fiction story of a crew of small-time bounty hunters led by the charming and enigmatic Spike Spiegel.
These are obviously very different stories, at least from the perspective of the setting and micro-scale events. But even in these never-intersecting universes, there is a saturated point of tangential interaction. There are the parallel paths of the heroes, playing perfectly in time with one another. Spike Spiegel. Rick Blaine. They follow the same arc with the same obstacles. And with each story, we are given a microscopic look into this little piece of their lives...
author: Nick Dashing
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But pro wrestling is basically creative writing distilled into its purest form. You have a good guy and a bad guy, and they have a conflict. This conflict leads to a resolution of a storyline, in which typically the good guy prevails. The main difference is that there is already an inherent premise for each conflict, as wrestling takes the form of a sport in which people fight each other as a job. Given this, many of the terms used can be transferred to any creative project. Some of them have even crept into my everyday speaking patterns. I have referred to myself as a “mark” at several points, and it’s been surprising to me how easily people understand words they’ve never heard if used in the proper context.
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