. . . there is a story or novel I want to write about. Some character or theme, technique or shallow trick, has moved me or bugged me enough that I want to say something about it. Or there is some more abstract idea that I've been mulling over--global warming, the ethics of genetic engineering--and want to organize and draw out my thoughts about. Or there is some life event I want to think through more carefully, perhaps to finish feeling--my mother's death, for instance, or the tenacity of depression. At any rate, there is a topic, a subject for critical thought and review and research. Not something that must be told but something that must be addressed. Something I've witnessed or survived or researched and want to write my reading of.
But this is all too abstract, too much about ideas and too little about tools, too much reaction and too little invention. What really happens is that . . . . .Abstract | Bibliography | Glossary | "Holier Than Thou" | Project Entrance
Initial release: June 10, 1996
Last update: June 11, 1996