Ryan:  wat else you doing rightnow?
like this instant what ar eyou doing!
i am always curious what you do

Sent at 1:45 PM on Thursday

me:  haha

i was laying on the bed

then i got back up and saw your msg

i got up cuz i thought of a sentence for this collab thing i am trying to finish a draft of

Ryan:  haha

i see

you just think sentences?

i dont think sentences

i dunno

i cant

my brain

i dunno

me:  well i have a set of images the thing is ending with

and i had a sentence that resolves one of them occur

yeah i think entirely in sentences mostly

but often based out of an initial image or situation of images

so the sentence kind of falls out of the image in specific words

but i dont really think about the words

or the image

Ryan:  huh

i need to be like

actively typing

in order for a sentence/language to happen

otherwise

it is like

just an echo of

aaaaaaa

or

bedpost

or

some other word

me:  hm

Ryan:  or sound

in my head

me:  do you ever leave somethin gyou are working on and go into another room and have some word or movement of it occur to you

that you then have to hold in your head to get back to type down before it changes

Ryan:  no

me:  weird

Ryan:  yeah

it is weird

me:  all the important shifts in a text come to me that way usually

otherwise when i am typing i just operate within the mode of that idea

if i dont get up i can just go on and on in a motion

that’s why i get up a lot

unless i want that specific ongoing wave

Ryan:  huh

when i am working

i will write frm that wave

the sentences

like but if i get stuck

i cant do anything so ill leave it alone

but its never like

me:  and then when you come back?

Ryan:  a setnence appears in my head

and i have to go back

huh

i just come back the next night

me:  so you get stuck

and when you come back

you pick up in the wave where you left off?

Ryan:  well

when i come back

me:  but maybe a little different?

Ryan:  i retype

the draft i have into a new file

making changes to language as i go

then i hope the wave comes

me:  wow, really?

every time?

Ryan:  when i get ot the previos point

usually every time

unless the story is already long

in which case

ill just

retype that page or soomehing

me:  damn

Ryan:  to get the language drip

me:  that seems insane to me

Ryan:  i think that is why i am slow

yeah

me:  haha

Ryan:  it is probably not the best method

but i just have foudn that

i cannot think of sentences

like i cannot work out language in my head

away from the text

me:  interesting

i guess it makes sense in the way your stories work

there is a formal logic

though you usually bury it under voice

Ryan:  yeah

me:  like you seem more like lutzian

that you have to have the clay to play with

in your hands

that’s me assuming lutz does that

Ryan:  how is that lutzian?

doesnt he like

me:  he stares at sentences

Ryan:  just sit on the floor

and think of a sentence

me:  no, that’s when he’s not writing

Ryan:  ooooh

me:  i think he just stares at sentences

Ryan:  yeah

me:  and fucks with them

Ryan:  yeah

plays with them

me:  i prefer the word fuck

Ryan:  haha

the one thing im realizing is i havent really moved away from plot at all

like

i dunno

they feel really plotty

me:  but its voice driven plot

Ryan:  but i never like think of a plot necessarily

right

whereas yours

like makes sense

the image of foundation

leading to the sentences

like

all of that in EVER

the house

space

me:  right, it’s more a feeling out

the logic comes out of the sound

rather than the sound comes out of logic

or at least in greater ratio that way

Ryan:  i want to write a novel

me:  you should

Ryan:  i will!

me:  you will

Sent at 2:02 PM on Thursday

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