Making Monkey 01

How I started it.

It started with a voice and it didn't really start that way. It is important that it started with a voice. But it didn't really start that way. Except it really did get going in that way, and because of that, it does seem that I really should be telling it that way that it really did get started then in that way with a voice. It started with a voice.

At first, there was an interest and a question about how to make it be and how to get it done. And then the next thing that I knew there was a voice. It came to me quite suddenly. And any time a voice like that has come to me quite suddenly I just cannot ignore it.

I think of it as though it was like anyone who heard the voice of god and had to write it down and tell someone. When anybody heard the voice of god and had to write it down and tell someone, I am sure they had to do it right away and they did it right away, and it didn't matter what it was that otherwise they might be doing or be expected to be doing, because they were compelled to write it down right then right now and right away. And then they had to tell someone.

Well I think it was a lot like that for me. It wasn't maybe like it was the voice of god, but it was like a voice divine, because I was consumed with it, and it was going on, and I had to get it down - I had to write what it was saying.

It was saying "He is strong and he is fast, and that is how he is."

This might not seem remarkable, not that much to anybody else, but it really was remarkable to me, because clearly this was what was first. It was the first thing that was being said, and was the first thing that I would write down, and it was clearly the beginning.

It was the beginning of the novel. And I knew that everything would flow from there. Not because the line was something in itself, but because it was the voice beginning with a way that it would speak and a way that it would speak about someone, the way that it would speak about the monkey.

It still gets me excited when I read the line because it means a lot to me. it might not mean a thing to anybody else. It might mean something to someone who thinks about the way that novels start. It might and it might not. But to me it means that it's the start and the way it starts is how it's going to go and it is the introduction of the voice, and it all began with that and it kept it going all the way. So it is important to me in that way.

It was my voice of course, but it also was a voice that had a presence of its own. It was the voice of writing Monkey. It was not an unfamiliar voice. I just never thought that it would be the voice of writing Monkey. It was the voice of writing other things when I was sometimes using it. But this time it was using me, so to speak. Which is to say it felt like that. And I liked the way it felt like that because I knew that it would be like that, like something that would make it all appear, and I would follow it. I liked the thought of that. I always like the thought of that, when it comes to making anything, that is the way I like it best. I think that's inspiration. And I like to write like that.