Inscribing thoughts: the animation of an adventure

This short reflection on my writing practice pivots off Roland Barthes’ announcement, in his last lecture course The Preparation of the Novel 1978–80, that he wanted ‘to track the Work from its Projection to it’s accomplishment: in other words, from Wanting-to-Write to Being-Able-to- Write, or from the Desire-to-Write to the Fact-of-Writing’. Here I reflect how Barthes, through animat…