PinnedTrevor WilliamsinWriting 150 Spring 2021To Live Vicariously (WP3)My mom raised me under the wing of stories. Reading was a nightly tradition for us: up until early middle school, she’d read me…13 min read·Apr 12, 2021----
PinnedTrevor WilliamsinWriting 150 Spring 2021WP2: The StorytellerInitially, I was hesitant to archive video games, of all things, in preparation for an intellectual autobiography. The concept felt taboo…2 min read·Mar 8, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsinWriting 150 Spring 2021To Abandon Writing with Force (WP4)I have mastered the art of the argumentative essay. Twelve grueling years of public school pummeled the structure and format into my brain…5 min read·May 8, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsPost IX: Creating Anxiety (Celeste’s Soundtrack P2)NOTE: This is part two of a connected post series about musical storytelling and emotional weight in Celeste. If you would like to read…3 min read·Apr 28, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsPost VIII: Motivational Motifs (Celeste’s Soundtrack P1)I briefly touched upon the depth of Celeste’s soundtrack in the first minute of my podcast, The Beginning, in my WP2 (linked here), but I…3 min read·Apr 28, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsPost VII: Learning from “Learning from Tea”NOTE: This is a direct response to Rishi’s post, linked here.3 min read·Apr 28, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsinWriting 150 Spring 2021Post VI: Grief and Nothingness in “Nomadland”I watched Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland a couple weeks ago and was surprised by the movie’s structure: there was a noticeably strange lack of…2 min read·Apr 19, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsPost V: Deflective ComedyWhile listening to Soloman Georgio’s comedy album “Homon*gro Superior,” I found myself surprised at how mentally tense I was. Not at the…2 min read·Apr 17, 2021----
Trevor WilliamsinWriting 150 Spring 2021Post IV: Undertale, an Anti-Oppressive Game (Train of Thought from “How Should Games Teach”)While reading fellow classmate and publicist Rishi Basu’s post about the distinction between oppressive video games and humanizing ones…3 min read·Apr 7, 2021--1--1
Trevor Williamsinwp2: the storytellerThe Ending: Exploring Expectation and Tragedy in Ori and the Will of the Wisps[SPOILERS for Ori and the Will of the Wisps]4 min read·Mar 13, 2021----