Cascading with effective/affective procrastination

While revising a manuscript, sometimes we come to see how we have missed a point or effect, or something else – either at the local or global level of the text. This is, therefore, attributed to the writer’s own prudence, reasoning and finding. While acknowledging this kind of attribution, I go a bit further in this poetic report to make a note of how one of my manuscripts put forth its own being and voice. Once thought calm and complete, and even submitted for publication, the manuscript presented itself to me as being in discord with itself, here and there, in different layers, and thereby with me, which caused its retraction. This post-humanistic plane involving, among others, (in-)stable textual layers and connections, together with my analytical reflections, (serendipitously) took me to both alien and native metaphors (e.g. Pusteblume and triptych) – for fine reasons – and spaces of evaluative linking and relinking in my still ongoing refinement of the manuscript. As an eventual sub-process, this plane, following my trust in the potentially sensible fruition that flashed, particularly made me realize the value of relational and shared agency and their ‘conversion’ in the creative process and revision involved. Briefly, I attempt to experimentally recreate in this piece, preceded by a preamble, my impressions of this very learning space, visited by an air of ‘revisionism’ that, if need be, is applied even to published works.