A musical connection.
This piece came to me on a nice summer day in 2021, when I decided to take some time away from all my gadgets. Like a lot of people, I’ve become a little too tethered to my computer during the pandemic, and sometimes I need a break from the digital world. So I took a notebook to the park and sat down at a picnic table to write by hand.
Writing offline, on paper, means I can’t do any quick research and I can’t edit. If I mess up my facts or misspell something, nothing will show me my errors, much less fix them for me. Without the augmentation computers provide, all I’ve got is what’s already inside my mind. In some respects it’s more difficult to work with those natural limitations, but I also like knowing I don’t need all that extra stuff to create something, and I enjoy doing it.
Generally speaking, I don’t set out to write stories that closely reflect my own experience, but more often than not they reflect it anyway. In this case, I was seeing what I could do without the assistance that technology usually provides — much as Charlie does at the end of this story. Of course, I did some editing later when I typed the story, and some research, too. That research lead me to the title, which I’ve adapted from a song title by the great jazz composer Charles Mingus.
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