But something has also been lost along the way, perhaps because that earlier grave subject-matter is lacking or perhaps because the writinginthisbook is simply slacker than before.
When we were writing about thisin our book (and excuse the shameless plug) we said they Just Start . (Which was our title.) And we tried to capture the approach we were advocating with the subtitle: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty.
Indeed, the visual is so important inthisbook that the descriptive writing has more emotional charge than the passages which give us access to the main characters' minds.
One resolution in particular nags at me this year: the desire to start writing the book that has been kicking around in my head for the past two years.
"The real challenge of writingthisbook was to find the connecting fibers of the characters and to find how their stories overlapped in time and structure and themes, " Mr. Hosseini said.