The Glide project began in 1998, with the idea for a speculative fiction, first called The Death Dancers, later changed to The Maze Game.  Megabytes of notes, an outline for the novel, and the first 100 pages were completed in the summer of ’98.  In the process of getting the ideas down, a visual language, invented and used by characters in the novel came to light, so I spent some time drawing the symbols of the language, translating them, and starting to see how they worked to generate meaning.  The language is called Glide, the name of the people who created it.  The language both lifted itself out of the story, then, once more fully described, fed back in, as it became obvious that it was integral to the story on many levels.  The mazes of The Maze Game are constructed of the signs of the language.