The structure of revisiting the same calendar date across different years is clever, it creates this vertical slice through time that highlights both change and continuity. That observation about commercial work polluting the creative stream is something I've wrestled with too. Theres this constant tension between needing to monetize a skill and keeping the pure exploratory space intact. Also the Lincoln in the Bardo mention, that book's handling of grief and liminal spaces through multiple voices was unlike anything else. The format itself became part of the emotional architecture.
The structure of revisiting the same calendar date across different years is clever, it creates this vertical slice through time that highlights both change and continuity. That observation about commercial work polluting the creative stream is something I've wrestled with too. Theres this constant tension between needing to monetize a skill and keeping the pure exploratory space intact. Also the Lincoln in the Bardo mention, that book's handling of grief and liminal spaces through multiple voices was unlike anything else. The format itself became part of the emotional architecture.
Thanks for your comment. The layering of time in Journal has been an enjoyable result.