Well, I was just checking out the stats and it looks like readership visits to the old blog are trending downward lately. It’s my fault. I haven’t been writing much for Metaphor lately. It’s partly because I’ve been writing a lot about the Warrior imagery and posting it elsewhere, and partly because I’ve been posting more political stuff elsewhere, but mostly because I’ve been working a lot on the novel.

I read something interesting the other day, about how poetry is attire for emotion. That makes sense to me for creative writing in general – at least the kinds of things that I like to write. But you know what works better as an analogy for me? There’s a scene in one of the Invisible Man movies – maybe in all of them and cartoon versions too – where the invisible guy gets spayed with water, and you can see his form because you can see the water on him.

I think writing is a lot like that. I can’t really make you see what I see. But if I dress it in words, or spray it with a fine mist of expression and get the light to hit it right, maybe you can glimpse it running – otherwise naked – into the distance.

So sometime this weekend, I’ll try to post a new chapter or something, so you can see what I’ve been up to.