The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.