One way I see the whole territory of a narrative is to spread its pages out as much as possible. If your narrative isn’t too long, spread it out on a large floor or tape all its pages on the walls for a few days. If it is a book-size narrative, then I spread it out section by section or chapter by chapter and record what I discover with each portion as I go. What impression does it give you visually: solid as a wall, fractured, porous, static, chaotic, undulating? How does this visual experience of the materiality of your narrative relate to its content and spirit? I allow myself to move in a
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