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Think of each of these elements as a potential chapter title in “What Writers See.” Some of you will recognize the structural parallels with my four previous books published by Little, Brown. But I also want to emphasize the differences. We are moving up the ladder of abstraction from “how writers work” to “what writers see.” It’s more about the life of the writer, the profound ways of knowing that develop over time with the acquisition and exercise of craft.
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| 2. They see moral ambiguity — even in a doorknob. | 2 |
| 50. They see the Beatles at their reunion concert. | 1 |
| 35. They see the poetry in common speech. | 1 |
| 41. They see coffee. | 1 |
| 34. They see dreams of stories yet unwritten. | 1 |
| 43. They see sex. | 1 |
| 36. They see a universe of choices in a semicolon. | 0 |
| 33. They see their work in print: days, months, years before it happens. | 0 |
| 32. They see the narrow alternate route, the back streets and detours. | 0 |
| 31. They see the walls talking to them. | 0 |
| 30. They see reading and writing as profoundly dangerous. | 0 |
| 29. They see beyond the horizon of their talent and experience. | 0 |
| 28. They see themselves as members of a special species, homo narrans, the creatures who tells stories. | 0 |
| 38. They see the empty in the full, and the full in the empty. | 0 |
| 37. They see the big in the small, and the small in the big. | 0 |
| 39. They see the secret meaning in the casual gesture. | 0 |
| 49. They see the rocks in your head — and theirs. | 0 |
| 48. They see the water, the land, the sky. | 0 |
| 47. They see dead people. | 0 |
| 46. They see the insides of myths. | 0 |
| 45. They see archetypes. | 0 |
| 44. They see violence. | 0 |
| 42. They see the story that smells bad. | 0 |
| 40. They see the language flaw in their text message. | 0 |
| 27. They see movies — everywhere. | 0 |
| 26. They see themselves as musicians. | 0 |
| 25. They see themselves as struggling — even when they are not — for a noble purpose. | 0 |
| 12. They see visions — and revisions. | 0 |
| 11. They see every complication as a potential resolution, and every resolution as a potential complication. | 0 |
| 10. They see their own voice and the voices of other writers. | 0 |
| 9. They see all surfaces, and all media platforms, as potential canvasses for their work. | 0 |
| 8. They see texts as experiments in which they can swim. | 0 |
| 7. They see stories as worlds into which they, and the readers, can escape. | 0 |
| 6. They see their own work as a serial narrative, one long work with countless chapters. | 0 |
| 5. They see endings, even before they write a beginning. | 0 |
| 4. They see themselves and others as characters in a narrative called life. | 0 |
| 3. They see — that is know — with all their senses. | 0 |
| 13. They see the English language as their playground. | 0 |
| 14. They see themselves as members of a tribe. | 0 |
| 24. They see life — yours and theirs — as a story with chapters. | 0 |
| 23. They see readers as imaginary friends. | 0 |
| 22. They see themselves as time travelers. | 0 |
| 21. They see their eccentricities as essential to their craft. | 0 |
| 20. They see themselves as members of a larger community of readers and writers. | 0 |
| 19. They have a third-eye for detail — of both place and character. | 0 |
| 18. They see themselves as God’s privileged giver of names. | 0 |
| 17. They see themselves as addicted to narrative — in all its forms. | 0 |
| 16. They see themselves as possessing X-ray vision. | 0 |
| 15. They see themselves as kings — and impostors. | 0 |
| 1. They see the world as a storehouse of story ideas. | 0 |
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:26 (twelve years ago)
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