By what strange alchemy does forty three individual essays, poems, and stories become a “collection”? For Deep Wild Journal, it has to do with the Great Shuffle. I spent parts of four days walking around and around this bed, pulling on my beard, moving pieces from place to place, dropping sometimes to my knees for a closer look—a process that might still be going on, except it became time to go, and so the line-up became a pile.— Rick K
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This is great – the intuitive process.
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It would be interesting to hear your process for sorting and organizing an anthology. The times I have done it have seemed pretty seat-of-pants, made more through intuition than any real process. It’s what feels right, I suppose. s
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