The collection
Essays on creative practice, narrative identity, revision, and the changing work of authorship.
Essay · Writing & Authorship
Do We Write Because We Think in Stories—or Think in Stories Because We Write?
Narrative begins before writing, but the page changes what narrative can do. By fixing one account long enough to question it, writing can turn the stories of a life into objects of …
Essay · Writing & Authorship Advisory
Why We Build Worlds When Life Feels Unruly
A made world can offer something ordinary escape does not: a bounded system whose rules answer back. Systemic refuge names that possibility, but its value depends on whether the …
Essay · Writing & Authorship
What walking can—and cannot—give a writer
Walking may widen the field of possible ideas, but it does not compose finished prose. Its value lies in creating distance from the page before the writer returns to make decisions.