Fractured

« The original Dreaming Methods project: a disturbing diary during which the author appears to awaken from his normal life. » http://www.dreamingmethods.com/default.asp?idno=87 « The first piece of digital writing I produced was called "Fractured" (well, it wasn't at the time, it was called "Teeth", but it later became called "Fractured".) This piece was always intended to be presented digitally, but was at first written in the normal manner in Microsoft Word, printed out and then read aloud at a local writer's group to a slightly confused but reasonably positive audience. Since writing "Fractured" (despite the fact that I am continually irritated by the fact that I didn't write something longer), I have always had a feeling that my future approach to writing for the web should embrace a very "fractured" structure; unending sentences, half-memories, repetitions and uncertainties, drafts, scribbles and then re-written drafts. Digital writing, to me, begs to pull at the very fabric of how things are written and how narratives are perceived. » http://www.dreamingmethods.com/?idno=456 « Even though it's presented like a journal, 'Fractured' on DF was not originally written with a diary structure in mind, and although it's nightmarish, it doesn't at any point claim to be a dream. The way individuals live their everyday lives and have their everyday thoughts can be extremely abstract and strange, it just depends how you look at it, interpret it. The greatest thing I can think of to achieve with a piece of online fiction is to capture something that, through words in conjunction with multimedia and interaction, would be impossible to capture through the traditional writing method. » http://www.dreamingmethods.com/?idno=90