Do you ever feel like you're just always working off intuition?

yeh all the time

>>7571888
You mean in writing? Yeah. I'm trying to write my first novel(la), and what I'm finding about my writing process is that, I'll go in with all of these thoughts, plans, ideas, and then just write about stuff that comes up through associations.

It doesn't help that I have some weird kind of autism where I hear the words more like a musical composition, so when I'm thinking of what will come next I'll consider what I want it to sound like, what the progress or resolution should be. Editing's easy: everything's on the chopping block, only a few precious words or clauses should be saved from a paragraph.

I'm stupid in a complicated way.

>>7571942
That's why I choose poetry over prose. I end up talking in terms of sound so it seems logical.

Were this a real conversation I'd probably do it in this manner
Writing in these odd lines
Because
It sounds right in my head

>>7573485
That's why I've been more and more interested in grammar and in reading those writers who know their way around a sentence (Henry James, Didion, Updike, Hawthorne).

Have you read any McElroy? I know W&M gets posted here a lot, but his other works use some mind-flexing logic when it comes to sentence structure.

>>7573505
Not yet

>>7571888
Yes. In both reading and writing. You ever use a word you're not sure the meaning of, but you're certain you're using it right? Then you look it up and sure enough you've used it correctly...Happens to me all the time