Talk:1978: The Warp/@comment-24356014-20140128045918/@comment-6195799-20140128051116

Thanks man. I totally gotchya. I haven't read a lot of writers who write this intentionally cryptic and murky. Dalton Trumbo does similar stuff in his book Johnny Got his Gun, but not quite the same. So it makes sense you might not connect with it as much. It's just my thing. I sort of consider it my signature.

I don't remember exactly how I started doing this. I remember it started when I read The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. (One of King's better books, it's from the 1980s.) When the main character had inner thoughts, it would be written out like a run-on sentence. I got fascinated with the idea of constant thought, (writing a story in run-on sentences), then somewhere along the way I decided to get very allusional and not very concrete, and stuff just evolved. My advice if you're trying to hone your writing skills, just do like King said and "read a lot, write a lot." Also listen to trippy music.