VAGABOND MIND: Working Papers

An Introduction

How does an inventor get started inventing? He or she comes into a problem to discover that none of the usual methods, tools, lessons, and advice works any more. This book collects a series of working papers generated as the inventor – the author of the story Descending Road – fumbled around for clues and directions to take.

Dead ends and blind alleys appear all over the place. To complicate matters, the story itself continued to grow and multiply and generate spinoffs that produced an entire world. These papers show some of the seeds of that process.

This is a piece of inventive history. Here's a sample of it.