Crashing through the forest at dusk...free art!

Dear Friends,

I think a lot about the architecture of stories. Where to start? What ideas or narratives to braid in? How to format? Once I laid the pages of an essay out across my rented house—including up the stairs. I went around with scissors, cutting paragraphs and moving them around. I had expanded my brain into the three-dimensional in order to find the narrative arc of the piece. 

Writing my book about being a climate scientist and working in politics has at times felt overwhelming and unwieldy. To get to the kernels at the heart of it, I have been making zines. A zine is like a haiku book that can be printed on one piece of paper and folded into eight pages. The format constrains and structures the content. In those constraints I find clarity. The informal distribution makes me smile. Writing, for me, is about connecting with others. Please print, fold, and share this zine about what it means to be a scientist. 

xo

E.A. Farro