Johns Hopkins University

Just outlining the coastlines took a month. On the solid, 22-inch by 30-inch sheet of white paper I was working on, I couldn't use an “undo” button if my highlighter happened to slip. I had spent two months creating a rough draft, and an additional month tracing the final copy with a pencil. I then outlined that with a pen, which I was now going over with a highlighter. Messing up at this point would waste four months of hard work. The stakes were high, but I was enjoying the process. I was already thinking about other details to work on upon next. A steampunk society experiencing rapid…