'Tis, in fact, what I do for a living. Most of my research is in reconstructive memory. I am *not* one of the people who feel that science takes the romance out of the world, or is inherently unpoetic, but I do think that scientific *writing* sometimes has a tendency to do just that. It becomes important to step back and describe everything from a different perspective, just to remember what excited us about it in the first place.

I've been enjoying the description of writing style that you started and Papersky picked up as well. For me, the seed is sometimes visual, sometimes conversational, sometimes emotional. I'd say that in the same way that visual imagination uses the same 'stage' as vision, that creating a story from that initial kernel uses the same toolbox as reconstructing a memory.

I have this funny feeling that I'm not going to be able to avoid posting an actual blog here, even though I really don't need more ways to procrastinate. Right now, for example, I really ought to be either analyzing data or writing snarky comments on freshman papers. Yet, somehow, here I am.