Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is the opening line just a framing device for a short story with abrupt transitions, or does it mean that this is an actual draft of a book that won’t be finished for whatever reason?
I’d say it means “This thing is more of a story outline than a story, but I can’t be bothered to write the book it’d take to tell the whole story.”
If you’d categorise that as a ‘draft’.… well, go ahead.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is the opening line just a framing device for a short story with abrupt transitions, or does it mean that this is an actual draft of a book that won’t be finished for whatever reason?
I’d say it means “This thing is more of a story outline than a story, but I can’t be bothered to write the book it’d take to tell the whole story.” If you’d categorise that as a ‘draft’.… well, go ahead.
I think it’s kind of a “have your cake and eat it too” way to transform the latter into the former.