Delany notes that creative writers are concerned--to his mind, foremostly--with "observation and organization"; two "variables" that can change depending on the writer (20)
"Any exercise that urges us to observe in a different way becomes a route to new fictive material that will likely register as alternative; any exericse that suggests new ways of organizing the materials of writing--from words, to sentences, to scenes, to whole works--will also likely generate alternative fiction."