The Job Redux

Rewriting long forgotten snapshots of work

August 29, 2022 · 7 min · Giles Hutton

Writing is Hard

Writing is hard. Perhaps that’s an oversimplification. The mechanics of writing are easy, especially in a day and age with computers with spelling and grammar checkers. You can even use an app that tells you how good your writing is1. It’ll tell you when you end a sentence on a preposition, or when you’re too passive, or use too many adverbs. None of these tools are perfect, but they do a good job of propping up one side of the process to make life easier for the writer. But writing is still hard. ...

May 13, 2022 · 5 min · Giles Hutton

The Job: Scene 3

Scene 3 of The Job, in which our main character gets paid. ...

June 19, 2020 · 8 min · Giles Hutton

The Job: Scene 2

Scene 2, in which our main character gets in a bit of a sticky situation on his first job. ...

June 12, 2020 · 9 min · Giles Hutton

The Job: Scene 1

Scene 1 of a thing I discovery wrote one evening. I might develop the idea a bit later on, but for now it’s just a fun experiment type thing. ...

June 5, 2020 · 5 min · Giles Hutton