Comments on: This Tangled Web https://www.zacharydillon.com/2021/12/11/this-tangled-web/ SUBJECTIVE FICTION Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Zachary Dillon https://www.zacharydillon.com/2021/12/11/this-tangled-web/#comment-122 Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:37:28 +0000 https://zacharydillon.com/?p=956#comment-122 In reply to ben latimer.

I’m glad to hear you can relate! Writing is so solitary, it’s easy to think we’re the only ones doing it “the weird way.” Others’ writing often feels conceived as an indivisible whole, when in reality they were equally alone, holding all the ropes of their own set of Macy’s parade balloons. Triggering the right combination of hallucinations and associations in a reader’s mind is like the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” with every new story.

I hope you find a way out of your own tangle. I look forward to possibly reading the result.

And I’m honored to hear that your nephew enjoyed “Clown Car”! It’s still one of my favorites on here too. Thank you so much for sharing it!

]]> By: ben latimer https://www.zacharydillon.com/2021/12/11/this-tangled-web/#comment-121 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:28:48 +0000 https://zacharydillon.com/?p=956#comment-121 Again, the diversity of your stories is impressively vast. The madness here is very specific, reduced a moment. A 3D still life. Writer in mid-process, surrounded by the elements of her story, hanging precariously throughout the place she lives.

I’m currently living in exactly that space, trying to find a way through a story I thought, maybe foolishly, I had full grasp of before I started writing. Nope. I’m holding on to a bunch of threads that may make sense to only me.

Sidebar: I shared your clown car story with my 22 year old nephew. He was absolutely spellbound. Not easy to do with him!

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