The Grand Library · Wing III · Crossover
The Crossover
Where the Study meets the Reading Room: a memory from your own life is the anchor, and the essay gives it an argument and a shape.
Or build it yourself: steps I–IV are the memory, step V shapes the essay.
Choose a feeling (or two, or three)
Feelings first. Up to three, in order: where it begins, what it becomes, what lies beneath.
When in your life?
A chapter of your years, from your earliest memory to this very evening.
What happened?
Milestones, small moments that might otherwise be forgotten, or some of each. Up to three of each, in order.
The finer details (optional)
Places, people, scents and sounds: the things that bring the old rooms back. One or two of each.
Six more details
The writer’s craft: fifteen optional choices
Twelve more ways in
New: forty more ways in
Shape it into an essay
From the Reading Room: the kind of essay, the wider world, a book or a page you wrote, another turning point, and a way in from the present day. Only the type of essay is required.
Passing Thoughts (optional)
308,824 little ideas about life, the kind that drift in out of nowhere and make you stop and think. Carry up to three into the writing, in order. Browse by theme, or search.
The Ledger
Kept entries from every wing live here on this device, with room for margin notes.
Keep the library on your home screen
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