Blunt

My novella was written in daily blocks of exactly 500 words. The constraint functioned as both a prompt making me accountable for keeping a writing practice, but dually allowed me to explore a concept of memory: the fissure between experiencing and remembering.

It is an exploration of fragmented and non-linear narrative, exploring both connection and access. The text records experience as it is lived and was edited as it was remembered, it is deliberately raw and rich with ellipsis, malapropism and associative shifts, and changes in attention. Memory operates relationally, moving between observation, sensation, and reflection to narrativise how remembering here is not neutral or fixed.

Acts of recall are shaped by the present, how the past is re-entered, reordered, and held. Truth is not located in linear explanation, but in what returns and what recedes: patterns of feeling, moments of pain, and brief instances of clarity or connection.

The narrative moves through overlapping and interrupted rhythms rather than resolution. In doing so, it asks what becomes possible when experience is no longer organised for validation, but witnessed from within its own changing temporal frame.

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