Lisa Mannetti I miss you so much. This is the pic I took of you at the Lizzie Borden bed and breakfast. I will always remember our swim at Salve Regina during Necon 24. You were amazing, talented, kind and lovable. RIP Lisa, my clumsy heart is broken for your loss.

This is the first manifesto of creative group Soi Transnational. Its mission is to encourage more creative production by testing methods to produce, present and promote creative projects. We are not concerned with launching creative careers, but preparing people for creative lives. Lives in which they can pursue their passions to the limit of their abilities and to see those abilities pushed further than they imagined possible. 

Artists have a fierce resistance to method. As much as is possible they want their art, craft and expression to come from themselves. There is nothing wrong with this passion, though it does cut one off from thousands of years worth of trial and error.