Talk:Wasted/@comment-24077689-20140405080113/@comment-24101790-20140405161549

Thanks, I do have a tendency to use ellipsis as a bit of a crutch when I'm writing. I'll try to get on that. When I get some time, I'm going to sit down and go through my stories and weed out most of the ellipsis.

The Clockwork Orange reference was a bit of a throw-away reference made in passing. The other two he directly references (i.e. Carrie by title and The Fly by the protagonist's last name.) I felt like the third reference (Rule of three.) was just a small aside that not too many people would pick up. Congrats on picking up almost all the pop culture references! I tend to include something small like that in most of my stories.

I had a bit of a problem with how I was going to kick off his deterioration. I mean he's been living in that house for so long. So I had to figure out how he could start 'going to pieces' so recently. I assumed he used a well and radium recently started leeching into the well. The obituary is to explain (to the readers) why this happened. I assume there was going to be a bit of a public outcry, but since it is an obit. I felt like that would be hard to fit it in without a sudden tonal change.