## Metadata - Author: [[Mindy Mejia August 1]] - Full Title: The Universe Is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics - Category: #articles - Summary: Writers know that every book has its own unique challenges. Sometimes a book has point of view issues. Or the timeline is tangled. Or the character’s motivation evaporates and you’re locked in a ps… - URL: https://lithub.com/the-universe-is-an-unreliable-narrator-mindy-mejia-litsplains-physics/ ## Full Document [[Reading/Readwise/Full Document Contents/Articles/The Universe Is an Unreliable Narrator Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics|See full document content →]] ## Highlights - Writers know that every book has its own unique challenges. Sometimes a book has point of view issues. Or the timeline is tangled. Or the character’s motivation evaporates and you’re locked in a psychotic staring contest with your own delusion. When I sat down to write my latest thriller featuring an atmospheric physicist, the challenge was obvious: I didn’t know anything about physics. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7bgy5k6gd1mda3sqr7np32h)) - Tags: [[science]] - I’ve always been a glutton for education. I have two bachelors and a master’s degree, and my book research is pure joy, whether I’m trekking through the Boundary Waters or learning the properties of rigor mortis. But the idea of tackling physics, even tangentially, intimidated me. Physics was the only class I took pass/fail in high school. I was never top of my class, but As and Bs were the norm and the idea of taking a class pass/fail, where you didn’t receive a grade at the end but only had to scrape by with something more than 60%, felt like flagrant cheating. I did it anyway because, to fifteen-year-old me, physics was elusive. I understood the world in terms of marching band and Methodism. Studying the science of matter and energy felt like ignoring the actors of the play to examine the joists of the set. Teenage me was not into joists. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7bgxxk67r49mxdhf3a9w138))