Authorship, the “Mezzanine”, and the intercession of meaning: a metaphysics of the creative writing process

Drawing on ethnographic field data and utilizing a combination of sociological theories of “late-modernism” and the philosophical approaches of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze relating to the understanding of how creativity is achieved, understood, and valued, this chapter studies authorial observations of creative technique and mechanics of invention as a combination of organic realization and philosophical, ideological, and subconscious reproductions. Consequently, it explores the possibility that the “anxiety of influence” may be more accurately considered a physical and metaphysical developmental aspect of creativity that sees a signification of text applied solely after creative inception and action (and via public exposure) leading to individual (and collective) hermeneutic affirmations in time-space via fluid and variable filters of intersectional criteria in an age of societal fragmentation. To the writer, anxiety is not in negotiating the weight of extant texts on authorial ordering but, instead, in the anticipation (and fear) of the unpredictability of the creative act itself and the attendant ontological and ideological nakedness of the “mezzanine condition”: the intertextual and intersectional merely devices of elucidation.