Wendell Weeks has been writing for decades, almost exclusively in his mind. He occasionally adopts a more widely accepted method, where a keyboard and computer are used to record the words. He finds the system a bit awkward. Known simply (and somewhat ominously) as “the writing method”, its goal seems to be to harshly expose flaws in his ideas, structure, and style, leading to countless hours of re-writing, even for a short, simple paragraph, one that finally satisfies him until he reads it the next day and can’t understand why he wrote it in the first place. Begrudgingly, he acknowledges that the hilarious cruelty of the system does sometimes produce something to read.