Thursday, December 1, 2011

500 words

A couple of years went by, while I flailed around like this. But one day I sat down at my desk and wrote the first page of Middlesex, 500 words that contained the DNA for the protein synthesis of the entire book. I still had a million things to figure out about the plot and the characters, but I had my voice, my tone, and I was on my way. Jeffrey Eugenides on Middlesex in The Guardian.
Richard Serra, To Encircle Base Plate Hexagram, Right Angles Inverted (1970)

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