PinnedInWriting 150 Spring 2021byTrevor Williams·Apr 12, 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…
PinnedInWriting 150 Spring 2021byTrevor Williams·Mar 8, 2021WP2: The StorytellerInitially, I was hesitant to archive video games, of all things, in preparation for an intellectual autobiography. The concept felt taboo…
InWriting 150 Spring 2021byTrevor Williams·May 8, 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…
Trevor Williams·Apr 28, 2021Post 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…
Trevor Williams·Apr 28, 2021Post 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…
Trevor Williams·Apr 28, 2021Post VII: Learning from “Learning from Tea”NOTE: This is a direct response to Rishi’s post, linked here.
InWriting 150 Spring 2021byTrevor Williams·Apr 19, 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…
Trevor Williams·Apr 17, 2021Post 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…
InWriting 150 Spring 2021byTrevor Williams·Apr 7, 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Inwp2: the storytellerbyTrevor Williams·Mar 13, 2021The Ending: Exploring Expectation and Tragedy in Ori and the Will of the Wisps[SPOILERS for Ori and the Will of the Wisps]
