These Indicium Tales

Lance Phillips

An author’s statement

 

1. I think of all my writing to be of a piece.

2. I trust the text entirely. I know that it’s much smarter than I could ever be, so in that way it’s organic; it moves along mutating itself.

3. I like the idea of letting a word stand on its own in a text regardless of its source.

4. Any musicality in my writing is accidental; basically I think of the text as something to read on the page and not really spoken.

5. I’m much more interested in seeing what kinds of textures a text can sustain than in ideas of voice, narrative or any other form of drama for that matter.

6. “Scale expanded, and turned continuous,” says Edward O. Wilson in describing evolution. I suppose this is as good a place as any to begin; it covers the bases of my notion of writing.

7. I like that scale gets concision riled up.