This is how Zed writes:
He sketches out scenes, simultaneously, longhand on legal pads. Some dealing with certain characters and/or events, some dealing with others. As his mood changes during the day, he switches to other scenes - back and forth and back and forth, etc. Sometimes as many as a dozen a day, over the course of several months, until they are finished. As he progresses, he eventually types these scenes into his computer. And after a period of tinkering and editing, he prints them out, jots a subject word or phrase on a blank page, and staples it to the scene, which he then lays on the floor near other bundles with similar subjects.
His impulses are fleeting, and his interests shift day to day. Sometimes a scene absorbs his mood - the somber becoming somberer - and sometimes it reflects it - the bright would stay just as bright.
Ever-changing moods. And the result is a narrative of daunting density. Each moment filled with emotions and impressions from so many different days. Fragments embedded within fragments, and spat back incomplete - every word the start of another whole sentence, another whole story.
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