A gate to worlds.

They rise from us as if by magic, in words and ink, paint and pixels. When we write or make art, we summon into being worlds clothed in images.

In any writer’s or artist’s life, the perceentage of this world-making to see publication is minute. Supporting that small public display is a vast root system: years of work and thought, of explerimentation and play–an ongoing inner dialogue.

How does a writer-artist conduct that dialogue? Here are some thaoughts about the puzzles, questions, and processes that drive the long journey to a finished book.

Why Build Worlds?

Roots and Sparks

Wild Worlds