text:  It will grow, and then if we draw it on a piece of paper, it's literally something physical now. If we draw a model of it, if we put batteries in it, if somehow we can, you know, does it take on a life of its own? And I was off to the races, and I wrote for years, over the course of about five years, all about that. And then I boiled it down to just about 40 pages and put it in a drawer.