For those friends who are asking with regards to Crash and Burn’s Chapter 2 to 6 (and for general knowledge).
: It was difficult for me to portray isolation and withdrawal without being stereotypical or unconsciously drawing stigma around the topic of mental instability. So I wrote it the way I knew it would better represent it based on my experience and real accounts.
Chapter 2-6 is intended to be that way. I wasn’t supposed to write anything other than the month, but I gave away a bit of information para walang confusion. (Pero meron pa rin haha, so here goes) I presented this as Rory’s form of isolation from the real world and the way she kept to herself in her room for the past few months.
The blank chapters represent the times/months passing by one after another — it’s saying that she couldn’t keep track of her time. ‘Yong rason kung bakit I don’t want to narrate her, having internal thoughts like “I couldn’t keep track of time” was because I’m trying to put myself on Rory’s shoe, and if I was here, what would I do if I couldn’t keep track of time?
I would detach myself from everything without having a care of the time, running. It’s her internal struggle, speaking as if saying: move, but she can’t.
I hope this helps as an explanation, I don’t want to exhaust the story further by saying anything unnecessary or over explaining, this is just an emphasis why the chapter was left that way. It’s not unfinished. Ganyan talaga siya.
Achi.
