- Working title
- The Book I Keep Moving
- Situation
- The narrator keeps shifting the same unread book between desk, bedside table and shelf.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- He wants to think of himself as someone who still reads more seriously than he does.
- Concrete detail
- The bookmark is still at page twenty-two, where it has been for months.
- Emotional pressure
- A small loss of habit that feels connected to attention, age and wasted evenings.
- Suggested first sentence
- I moved the book again today, which is not the same as reading it.