Me Smash Puny Literature!

[atolnon]

I don't know if I've commented on this in the past, but my, um, my... hmm. I forget what it's called. Oh! My attention span is basically shot to hell after so many years of working on phones. I'm basically been conditioned to expect my stimuli to be brought to my attention in a pretty invasive way or else, for the most part, I do things that only require very shallow attention because I expect to be constantly goaded by something. That's a complaint for another time, but it's strongly influenced my writing, which looks like many pages of broken up paragraphs, all tangentially related, but very few of them strung together into a cohesive narrative. I can't seem to relate two thoughts to each other, but I keep writing them down. The story actually is progressing in a direction, but if you took what I've written and plotted it out, it would actually appear to be about three or four narratives at the same time. Some are news articles or commentary on philosophies related to the characters and plot, while others are simply snapshots of what characters are doing.

I'm hoping to patch it together into something cohesive when I'm done. I've written before now, and the natural flow of my writing in the past is totally different from how my mind attempts to patch narratives together now. It's a little frustrating. It's like I'm attempting to glean a deeper understanding by collecting everything found on the surface and trying to use those things to infer as to what lies deeper. Like flotsam of a sunken ship; we can no longer see what sunk it, but we can investigate the wreckage.