Journal # 36
Come up with a non narrative structural element not readily recognizable to a casual reader of your work but which will generate the sentences which move above the structural elements.

Journal # 37
Go back and look at everything you've written and imagine it as your book of essays. What would go out of the book and what would stay? What would be the unifying element? Find a unifying theme from which you might shepherd these essays toward. Find an original way for you to decide which of your writing selections are most valuable.

Journal # 34
Make the reader feel 'remembered pain.' Describe your first experience with adult physical pain.

Journal # 35
Regain a lost place. Reclaim it through the evocative magic of language.

Journal # 33
Use color as a motif. Don't make it obvious. Make it multidimensional.