Yet as I consider my writing process as the author of a book about the writing process, I realize that over the course of the project this line of thinking has had a tendency to send me reeling. To engage in the activity of which you are peeling back the layers is to also engage in a meta-project that inevitably pokes at insecurities and questions things previously thought certain. You’re never quite sure if you’re writing about someone else, or if in writing about someone else you’re unmasking something about yourself. But maybe that’s the whole point.
