Maybe you've seen already, but Historia de lo Oculto has a remarkably similar premise (replaces Carson with Firing Line, and has several overlapping story beats) and sticks it much better imo.
Mary Todd Lincoln sits at the piano and plays Skyrim lofi beats. Abe gathers the junior officers and tells them a story about carrying a block of ice six miles, imparting a moral about abstemiousness in the process. The Battle of Bentonville will be won this night.
Writing something action heavy and getting active verb fatigue. I worry that picking out the exact right verb everytime is a little like using "gasped" when I should have stuck with "said." Tough to use well, but Robert E. Howard's use of adverbs to make simple verbs sing is inspiring.
The latest folly in my ongoing saga: failing to solve psychological obstacles to writing with mechanical solutions. Can't say I'm increasing my word count, but it's pleasurable to peck at, like a fidget toy that can write 3 wpm.
And that's just the way that I feel
Your Phantasm wc is evocative and dreamlike as hell... very fitting!
The United States is right now, in the present, denying the Navajo Nation water rights. The idea that we must deny oppressed groups justice because of your wormy theoreticals about some sci-fi mass purging of the cities nightmare Land Back scenario is so morally sick it's hard to look at your words.
Notice how you have to keep retreating to analogy and hypotheticals instead of the facts on the ground in occupied Palestine?
