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The Literature of Waiting a Creative Writing Course with Time on Its Hands
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SOME DAY
The Literature of Waiting
A Creative Writing Course With Time on Its Hands
Now wait.
Now.
Wait.
You do it all the time. Time and time again.
You're doing it right now: waiting on our every word.
So here goes: before there was this book SOME DAY on writing creatively about a world of waiting, there was special topics Hunter College English course on "The Literature of Waiting" that featured a selection of novels, plays, and short stories by some rather famous world authors.
But wait: even before that time-sensitive college course there were, well, the elevators-particularly the ones in the North Building of Hunter College of the City University of New York. Elevators that you always had to wait distressingly long for when they were apparently working and eternally long for when they were "out of service."
There was even that infamous elevator repair sign. Picture it: a photoshopped female student with her right hand flat out in the stop-and-wait position, her compressed lips silently conveying that any wait on your part for an elevator to come would be entirely futile. And did we mention that the repair sign would inevitably remain up even after that elevator had been fixed? Now that made a certain sense since it was only a matter of time before the sign was, like a broken clock, accurate again.
The Literature of Waiting
A Creative Writing Course With Time on Its Hands
Now wait.
Now.
Wait.
You do it all the time. Time and time again.
You're doing it right now: waiting on our every word.
So here goes: before there was this book SOME DAY on writing creatively about a world of waiting, there was special topics Hunter College English course on "The Literature of Waiting" that featured a selection of novels, plays, and short stories by some rather famous world authors.
But wait: even before that time-sensitive college course there were, well, the elevators-particularly the ones in the North Building of Hunter College of the City University of New York. Elevators that you always had to wait distressingly long for when they were apparently working and eternally long for when they were "out of service."
There was even that infamous elevator repair sign. Picture it: a photoshopped female student with her right hand flat out in the stop-and-wait position, her compressed lips silently conveying that any wait on your part for an elevator to come would be entirely futile. And did we mention that the repair sign would inevitably remain up even after that elevator had been fixed? Now that made a certain sense since it was only a matter of time before the sign was, like a broken clock, accurate again.