Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How should I approach my story?

I am going to write a story about a woman who shakes a man's hand a long time and refuses to let go and I am including pictures I took of a woman and I shaking hands and my trying unsuccessfully to get away. I could either go with a straight-forward narrative as if just describing the conversation and action or I can write it in a surreal psychedelic way with cut-up weird spurts like how William Burroughs wrote some of his books (as an example though I would not purposefully mimic Burroughs per se but would get in the spirit of the style). My question is: what style would you find more interesting for a story about (at least in part) a long handshake trap... straight-forward or surreal?

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