The text

"No one actually reads these things," the gods said. Yet these things have a text, and often I'm writing it. There has to be a storyline or people will get lost. The text can feel like blocks that the designers move around, deciding their weight on the page. I often write to fit - one of the easiest ways to write, actually. Sonnets are like that for me, with their 10-syllable lines and their rhyming pattern of ABABCDCDEFEF, GG: 12 lines and a 2-line coda (in one case; the pattern can vary). So I write, although the gods say that no one will read it, "or only a few." Well, then, I guess that I write for them.