Structure

This morning, half asleep, waking, I had a vision of my novel "whole," how all the parts fit together, the overall structure of the work, and it was a thing of beauty. Not that many would recognize it. I am especially focused on structure, I suppose, because my intellectual life began as a mathematician and, indeed, my first publication was in a math journal (while I was a sophomore at Cal Tech, shortly before leaving). Like mathematicians, I am attracted to "less is more" elegance, and I see that possibility in the completed whole of my novel. It's not automatic, much work to do, but I am jacked that I see what is possible, and it strikes me as elegant.