ANFA
Today's writing in Dad's biography was both the easiest and the hardest.
It was the easiest because there is so much material from the founding of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) to its continued work. Since ANFA started in 2003, it's entire journey has been in the days of the Internet. There are videos of its annual conference online, including some at which Dad presented. Dad also wrote quite a bit about ANFA in his autobiographical files. ANFA has a website and some of the material was taken from there. I had lots to work with.
On the other hand, not wanting to make the chapter the entire book, it was hard to narrow down the topics covered and get to the meat of what I wanted to say - which was about Dad's vision for ANFA. As well as the continued challenges ANFA has in trying to bring that vision to life. I had quotes from a lot of people, as well, as Dad involved almost everyone he'd known in ANFA in some capacity of another.
The chapter ended up at 16 pages, which is the longest of them all, but not outrageous. I'm sure there will be editing to come. And I'm hoping that some of the thinner chapters get fleshed out a bit more by the reviewers/interviewees who have agreed to review and edit the book.
It was the easiest because there is so much material from the founding of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) to its continued work. Since ANFA started in 2003, it's entire journey has been in the days of the Internet. There are videos of its annual conference online, including some at which Dad presented. Dad also wrote quite a bit about ANFA in his autobiographical files. ANFA has a website and some of the material was taken from there. I had lots to work with.
On the other hand, not wanting to make the chapter the entire book, it was hard to narrow down the topics covered and get to the meat of what I wanted to say - which was about Dad's vision for ANFA. As well as the continued challenges ANFA has in trying to bring that vision to life. I had quotes from a lot of people, as well, as Dad involved almost everyone he'd known in ANFA in some capacity of another.
The chapter ended up at 16 pages, which is the longest of them all, but not outrageous. I'm sure there will be editing to come. And I'm hoping that some of the thinner chapters get fleshed out a bit more by the reviewers/interviewees who have agreed to review and edit the book.
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