Hello World

You are gazing upon a screen, filled with reflected brilliance. You are connecting through to a congregation of ideas and fingers and eyeballs and signals.

Right now, at this moment, you receive an invitation. It says, "Join us".

That is: come offer your feedback and complexity to the stories woven here.

Why?

You have unique perspectives on the many ways people are exploring this crazy world. You can help improve and expand the depth and range of the characters speaking their deepest truth to each other, here. And you can feel what works and what doesn't, what rings true and what sounds trite or strawmannish or thin. And make it better.

How?

Here's one way. There are many others.

Listen around you to the best conversations you hear. Record them, remember them, digest them, whatever works for you. Distill the many different, often conflicting or overlapping wisdoms and orientations people share, into a small number of specific, differentiated, relatively coherent voices.

Check and see if any of the existing characters already embody something close to your distillations. If so, try to use them, which might mean changing them a bit! (Life is change.) Or make a new one, fleshing out a bio a bit.

Then add to existing conversations or create new ones that convey the wisdom and complexity and ferocity and pathos of our beautiful people, being in the world right now.

Link them -- to related voices or moments or characters.

And know that others will be changing and refining and clarifying and expanding and slimming your work.

Thank goodness.

And welcome.