Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Sometimes it is best to go back to the old practice of putting everything on a wall so we can see the entire thing.

We used to do this. We would print a document and tape the entire thing to a wall. We would walk along the wall and glance back and forth over a distance of pages. We could see the entire thing. We could ensure things flowed and connected. We did pretty well.

“Oh, but now we have better technology. We have fill-in-the-blank-with-a-newer-computer-technology,” says another person with an encouraging smile.

“Yes, but I can only see half a page at a time on my computer screen,” says me with disappointment in my voice.

I read a statement. Hmm. That sounds like something I read somewhere else. Where was that? Search, find, oh, here it is. Why is it repeated? I don’t know. I can’t see enough of the document.

I once taped the framework of a book on a wall. I wrote that book. It sold well. That technique worked. All in the past. Perhaps I am just too old for this stuff. Or perhaps, we could do better.