#403: Ludicrously Capacious

One welcome aspect of a book’s publication is space. Imaginative space, the capacity to work on new stories. It’s not quiet enough to finish the manuscript; capaciousness doesn’t come till it’s done done. That’s not true for every writer, but it is for me. In the last weeks I wrote most of a short story that’s been germinating for years, and have started pulling at loose-threaded novel ideas, seeing which wants to unravel.

The thread analogy rings familiar. Am I borrowing it from somewhere or som...