a way into literary venturing

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As if implicit dramaticness of daily life is as textual as real interaction can be like reading each other’s situational authorships.

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winter 2026

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Authoriality of ordinary days doesn’t grant immunity from short illness, but it’s good for soon being “on the mend,” a doctor says to me.

So, I’m “on the road again” (Willie Nelson) of literary venturing—more post cards home, coming soon.

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authorship of authoriality

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Self-differentiation through writing as speech;

self-withholding in writing for an audience through an appropriate degree of candor, etc.;

receptiveness as “reading” another person;

writing the author of a silent text: Is it perceiving, creating, projecting?

Is the inferred author (the authorship) some weird mirror of one’s capability, preference, self-begetting?—

All of that is happening in non-“literary” life.

experiencing ordinary days as almost literary

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Today’s discussion begins a series on literary venturing.

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