post 7.1.1.0 Douglas Adams Flashback

(Douglas Adams flashback: perfectly normal beast*)  I'm sure the 3x5 cards, and the snippets, maintained existential integrity. 

*who were called that, in the story, because their method of entering and exiting the world was obviously very much not normal, and Thrashbarg knew that the village needed the meat.

Post 7.0.0.0 Musing about a Forgotten Book

There was a woman, a writer, who experienced writer's block. She continued to live her life, for a year or so, making small notations on 3x5 cards, recording small bits of her life as she lived it. Later, she collected her snippets into a book and it became famous and was considered to be very literary.

She did not arrange the snippets into a story. She presented the snippets as they were, although, being a writer, she may have polished and/or arranged them.

I don't think that a non writer or an un established writer could get away with that. I almost said do that successfully, but I think I mean get away with that and all the resentment that that contains.