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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
I write in non-linear sometimes. It's definitely something you have to do right - and goodness knows I've gotten it wrong at times. 
But I like reading it when it's done well. For some reason it feels more real to me. In reality, although we go through time linearly, we don't really experience our lives that way. There's throw-backs and lessons learned and applying that to whatever you're doing now. And that winds up having the effect of non-linearity through life. At least it does to me, but maybe I'm just crazy. |
Thank God for those disconnected memories that soften hard edges. It seems like all the best stories make their own associations. Maybe that's why they work so well around a campfire in the darkness, where space and time don't exist beyond the glow. But the flat page is a less forgiving environment. I always thought of the stories in my collection as chapters of a larger story about a community. Reviews say otherwise. I still think the connections work if you start with faith, in fact that was the whole point of the project. But abandoning anchors of space and time is a lot to ask of a stranger.