Recursive booklet, 105 x 148mm, 2022

Overview

Writers Write is a series of stories about writer’s block, contained in a recursively bound booklet.

Background

I had this idea a while ago and dismissed it because I thought it was disgustingly self-indulgent. Then I read Billy Summers and realised that some people had made entire careers basing stories on barely-disguised proxies of themselves, so figured I was joining a rich tradition. Furthermore, the edition I had in mind was just a few pages long, rather than several hundred, so I went ahead and made it.

The story is pretty much what it sounds like. One author struggling to write about another, who is, in turn, having their own difficulties writing their own story because that author is having difficulty… and so on and so on.

Praise be to the ISO paper sizing scheme, which makes this all possible. The booklet is bound by glueing the back page of the smaller booklet to bottom half of the recto in the centre spread. For someone who doesn’t like glue, I seem to be using a lot of it.