My husband laughed at me when I said that I’d stopped watching the first season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine because it had hit an episode with a trope I can’t watch. I mean, he laughed gently, just like the other people I told when they recommended the show to me. But…
I first learned about “timed writing” in my grade-eleven Writer’s Craft class. The concept is simple: it’s exactly what it sounds like. You set a timer, and then you write, continuously, until the timer goes off. At the time, I found it mildly confusing that this could be considered challenging.…