This is Not a Manifesto

This is Not a Manifesto

1. My job is to respond to the world and to the promptings of my mind. It requires no validation beyond the sense of calm that it gives me.

2. Sporadic creative acts can be useful. But a sustained practice goes deeper.

3. It happens that I have settled on writing fiction. But I’ve come to see other areas of creativity as connected to the same central endeavour. For example, poetry, walking, photography, filmmaking, typography and storytelling performance.

4. In writing fiction, I am focussed on the effect my work will have on its audience. Since every person reacts to a story in a different way, I consider my readers to be collaborators in the creative process.

5. All my writing decisions are informed by four goals, which come from four things I hope readers will experience.

6. The first goal is to create narrative drive sufficient to keep them turning the pages.

7. The second goal...

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