I am a writer of fragments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments.
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.
I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
I'm an accidental writer.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.