so i've been working on this application for a residency out in seattle,the hugo huts residency program that consists of a year in subsidized cottage in bell town an up scale neighborhood in down town seattle and the question is not the letter of interest the references or the poetry sample but the project proposal that i've been trying to write for the last week or rather trying to figure out what my project was/is or my business so i went over to my neighbors and talked to her about it as she's a little older and is pretty savvy when it comes to public presentation and this was good though i can't say she actually wrote anything for me but at least it got me unstuck from where i was which was the question of making some fake project up for the sake of having something solid to write about or trying to present an open ended proposal where i go into methods and directions but avoid actually committing to anything in particular like say proposing something very specific like "i'm going to write a sonnet cycle about every piece of jewelry my dead grandmother left my sister" or as equally terrible would be me explaining myself in a very pointed and rational way that concludes in "and therefore my project is no project at all" and so i come back to my apartment and begin again something much closer to what i mean to say