#4: what if writing was... - by Alicia - Upcycled Words
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a map, a lens, an experiment, a piece of toast (4/100)
Possibilities for why I might write and why I’ve committed to this 100 post journey. Chart 49 (map of the southern stars) from Johann Bayer’s Uranometria (1603) To begin with intentions is terribly important — by setting intentions for my writing, I see myself as marking the landscapes and the boundaries of the territory that I am embarking into. To set my intentions is to attempt to create the map of my mind as I know it now — undoubtedly incomplete and fated to be rearranged and re-rearranged, but it will be a starting point because no one begins with a blank map. We all have copied bits…
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