All very stimulating, but, truth be told, 

I'm learning about the language primarily 

by using the tools that Bill Brubaker has been building for the project. 

Glide language is teaching me about itself. 

Also of great assistance 

have been a series of solo “meditative” sessions 

that have thrown great light on the language, 

shaped the direction of the project, 

and kept me  focused.  

In the summer of 1999, I wrote the first draft of the novel—approximately 200,000 words.

Throughout this time period, I’d also been reading about visual language from many angles:  perceptual, philosophical, linguistic, semiotic, history of writing technologies, visual intelligence and literacy, visual metaphors.  I found other visual languages such as Bliss Symbolics,  and The Elephant’s Memory on the web. 

The novel's getting its final set of revisions. Then--find a publisher.

Bill, Daniel, and I planned the next stages of the interactive web project:  applications, a re-launch of the website.  Production began early in 2001.

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