In Russian Doll on Netflix, the main character Nadia has to repeat her birthday over and over again. In Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl, the characters aren't in a time loop, but they have to keep going through the same actions to learn more about themselves in order to move on. Her protagonist Ursula dies a billion ways over and over and over again, but every time she dies, she gets the chance to learn about herself and her troubles. Thanks to the 2021: Year of introspection and reading and watching and generally avoiding the writing game all together, I did finally realize that when playing with time loops, change and growth is inevitable.įrom this week's episode of Loki to the infamous time loop of Dr Strange, time loops in entertainment have become the ultimate obstacle for any potential hero, used as both a prison cell and a classroom.įor example, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson. It's like trying to wrangle four spinning plates.Īnd for a long time, I did it that way.

It's a cycle that used to work well, but with the changing market and new online retailers and, frankly a younger generation to engage with (because I've been writing over 10 years), there is always writing, always editing, always promotion to be done. You'd think in my 40th year of life with 7 books under my belt, I'd had found a rhythm of how to do this whole book thing. So, if y'all have been following along, it's been a year of figuring things out.

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