08/10/2026
New essay: Drafting my next book means rereading dozens of journals—and discovering that I was writing my future into being.
“My current process involves a stack of 23 journals, which span from March, 2022 through sometime last year. I’m reading them aloud to ChatGPT, which transcribes them verbatim into text that I drop into a Google Doc, which is quickly becoming enormous. Thereafter, I will add, edit, rearrange, and whittle until I have what a physical version of what, right now, exists as a complete and perfect object only in my mind. Or, somewhere between my mind and that ether of a dimension where all art lives before we channel it into material form. Rereading these journals has been surreal. Five minutes into the first session, I was sobbing ...”
Link in bio to read the full essay on Substack.
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