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Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds
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2020
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Classes
2020 Class 01 – ️Introduction
2020 Class 02 – Objects
2020 Class 03 – Social Objects
2020 Class 04 – Recalibration
Podcast
2020.W01E00 Introduction
2020.W01E01 Freewriting
2020.W01E02 Freewriting
2020.W01E03 Freewriting
2020.W01E04 Freewriting
2020.W01E05 Freewriting
2020.W01E06 Counterfactuals
2020.W02E01 Exercises
2020.W02E02 Exercises
2020.W02E03 Exercises
2020.W02E04 Exercises
2020.W02E05 Exercises
2020.W03 Bonus episode
2020.W03E01 Exercises
2020.W03E02 Exercises
2020.W03E03 Exercises
2020.W03E04 Exercises
2020.W03E05 Exercises
2020.W03E06 Conversation with Sarah Lugthart
2020.W04E01 Six House Parties
2020.W04E02 Exercises
2020.W04E03 Exercises
2020.W04E04 Interview with Amy Butt, Part 1
2020.W04E05 Interview with Amy Butt, Part 2
2020.W05E01 Exercises
2020.W05E02 Exercises
2020.W05E02.X Bonus / update
2020.W05E03 Final exercise
2020.W05E04 Interview with Abi Palmer
2020.W05E05 Interview with Tim Clare
2021
Module information
Podcast
W01.E00 Introduction
W01.E01 A Foggy Day
W01.E02 Identical But Not Identical
W01.E03 Interview with Amy Butt, Part 1
W01.E04 Interview with Amy Butt, Part 2
W02.E01 Freewriting
W02.E02 Freewriting
W02.E03 Freewriting
W02.E04 Freewriting
W02.E05 Freewriting
W03.E01 Counterfactuals
W03.E02 Matrix of Salvis
W04.E01 Exercises
W04.E02 Exercises
W04.E03 Exercises
W04.E04 Exercises
W04.E05 Exercises
W05.E01 The House
W05.E02 Long listen
W06.E01 Exercises
W06.E02 Exercises
W06.E03 Exercises
W06.E04 Exercises
W06.E05 Exercises
W07.E01 Mohammad
W07.E02 Scienthya
W07.E03 Linda
W07.E04 Niké
W07.E05 Vlad
W07.E06 Elisabet
W08.E01 Six House Parties
W08.E02 Exercises
W08.E03 Exercises
W08.E04 Exercises
W08.E05 Exercises
W09.E01 Final exercise
2022-23
Module information
2023-24
Module information
2024-25
Module information
Podcast
W01.E00 Introduction
W01.E01 A Foggy Day
W01.E02 Identical But Not Identical
W01.E03 Interview with Amy Butt, Part 1
W01.E04 Interview with Amy Butt, Part 2
W02.E01 Freewriting
W02.E02 Freewriting
W02.E03 Freewriting
W02.E04 Freewriting
W02.E05 Freewriting
W03.E01 Counterfactuals
W03.E02 Matrix of Salvis
W04.E01 Exercises
W04.E02 Exercises
W04.E03 Exercises
W04.E04 Exercises
W04.E05 Exercises
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2024-25
Podcast
W04.E04 Exercises
Week 04 Episode 04: Exercises
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</ifram> ## Transcript Hi there, and welcome to Parallel Worlds. How are you today? What’s that? Wait, don’t tell me now, put it down in a 5-minute freewrite. Or a 5-minute free record, if you like. Ready? Go. ``` 5 mins ``` OK, how was that? Have you looked back, or listened back, to your earlier writing or recordings yet? How is it shaping up? Has anything been impacted by this constant recording of thoughts? What’s the overall shape of your life looking like right now? This kind of reflection is going to be useful as we draw narratives and parallels between the real world and fictional worlds later. Now, I’d like to do something a bit different. This next exercisehas the potential to become a bit overwhelming, so don’t feel an obligation to write a really really really long list. Let me explain. So far we’ve produced things based on perspectives. A detective, or an art critic, trying to read a room. A travel guide, recommending things in that space. Now I’d like you to become as objective as you possibly can, and produce an audio catalogue. Your task today is to list the items that surround you as precisely and objectively as possible, as if they were in a catalogue. Then, I’d like for you to order that catalogue in a way that makes sense to you. You could, for example, go in size order, listing your pens then your phone then your cup, or you could go in the order you acquired the objects, or by colour, material, function, texture – whatever you like. The key rule is to be consistent. I’d recommend a short, factual description – _one coffee cup, white, heavily tea-stained on the inside. One Muji pen, 0.38mm, translucent polypropylene._ If you have lots of things around you, of course you can limit your cataloguing. Perhaps choose things that are within a one metre diameter of your eyes. But be consistent in your application of whatever rule you choose. The idea is to produce a new ordering and relationship between objects you’ve already described a few times before. I will let you do this once the podcast ends. Keep up the audio recording of the sounds of daily life, too! Have you found a sound you like recording each day yet? Perhaps that clank of a saucepan on the hob, perhaps the opening of a can of beans. Keep your phone nearby and keep recording! I will be back tomorrow. I hope you have a nice day, or night. ## Exercises ### Today’s writing exercises - 5-minute free write about life and surroundings at the moment. Has anything changed recently? ### Today’s audio exercise: catalogue 1. Make a list of every object you can see in your immediate vicinity. Find a way of ordering your list. The simplest way would be to go from large to small. 2. Make a recording of this list as an ordered catalogue, describing each object briefly as if they’re in a catalogue. _e.g. One white cup, with tea-stains in the interior. One glasses case, of dark brown faux leather, embossed with the brand Persol, containing one microfibre cloth and one alcohol glasses wipe. One thermally insulated flask, black, chipped._ Note that you cannot describe anything that you cannot objectively see. How do your relationships to the objects, to the space, change? ## Further Reading - [Resources](/resources) - resources and inspiration for writing, producing, and editing audio stories - [Transom.org](https://transom.org) - a great list of audio resources ## Subscribe [RSS](https://anchor.fm/s/1884b008/podcast/rss) / [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/parallel-worlds/id1504529134) / [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3L3RhKaoqQZoU9fIcLuZjz) / [PocketCasts](https://pca.st/ha20534r) / [Google Podcasts](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xODg0YjAwOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D) / [RadioPublic](https://radiopublic.com/parallel-worlds-WzVy1K) / [CastBox](https://castbox.fm/channel/id2710471?utm_source=podcaster&utm_medium=dlink&utm_campaign=c_2710471&utm_content=Parallel%20Worlds-CastBox_FM) / [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/parallel-worlds)