I’ll expand on this another time, but wanted to jot down this idea that with the lorecore books, I am not possessive about them from an “authorial sense.” Did I “write” them? Some yes, very much, some less. But there are myriad choices, branches, possibilities, taken or untaken. Much of it is merely the result and record of what is explored, discovered, provoked, or simply noticed. I think of myself more than anything as being the First Reader of one of these new works. And then I apply my own sort of human-intelligence filtering workflows against it until it matches the criteria of quality that I am looking for at any given moment (which fluctuates with time and further experimentation).