When I reread the things I have written in a flurry of 'inspiration', I wince when I see sentences fit for a paragraph with a handful of punctuation marks, supposedly to aid the reader understand what I'm trying to say and how I'm trying to say it. Of course, it doesn't really. (I think I just did it again)
Why do I do this? Am I inherently a poor writer? But then I think of J.D Salinger and how Raise High to Roof Beam Carpenter could pretty much be a book made of one large convoluted sentence, and how much I loved that book and how it was written.
Perhaps when you have a flow of thought that comes so fast and so uncontrollable, you spew all your guts onto the paper or screen with 5 commas, 3 semicolons, some dashes and ellipses then finally, FINALLY that ragged breathless dot at the end. But no one will understand you really. So you look through literature vomit again, and fragment yourself.
Unrelated: I wouldn't mind marrying a cool paramedic. :)
2 comments:
but it's cute to have more than 1 dot or semicolon!
u write with ur heart n full of emotions as if ur talking to the readers.. thats good what. and i writings like 'happening' and all with dots, semicolon, commas, marks here n there. hehe
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