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I have had my muse pop in every few days to give me bits and pieces about my next story and she is trying to tell me to do something different.
Two days ago I got to thinking about universes and the links. I know my next story is going to be long and complex if I went the normal route with it but thinking about links in universes got me an idea that I don't think has been used often: small individual pieces linked by an ongoing central plot. The closest I have seen is Snowfall's early Lyssa Kordonay Missions series but that wasn't the same.
So I am going to try this bold idea and focus individual parts on a couple of central characters rather than the whole family or a single branch of the family. There's something that connects each part to one another so it's both at hte same time but flowing along, it may be a simple conversation or it may be reactions to big news from previous parts.
Anyway, it's not going to be a massive, just 13 or so parts of various lengths. I see this as being the finale in the 14 teens' involvement, the rest of the stories if/when I can figure them out are only going to feature the younger kids/tweens. And from the way my mind has worked, I actually have just one story left after this as I am out of ideas.
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cool
cool. can't wait to see it!
quidquid sum ego, et omnia mea semper; Ego me.
alecia Snowfall
nice
sounds like it could be an interesting way to do it :)
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Sounds like....
... it will be an interesting turn of events for you and your readers! You CAN do it!
Sounds like a nice idea. "..
Sounds like a nice idea. "... it's not going to be a massive, just 13 or so parts of various lengths..." Um, that's not massive? Oh, I guess it's not. I guess it's not bike-massive by any means. (Gaby as well as Falling...)
-- Daphne Xu
If I went with a
If I went with a straightforward story I'd end up with a 20 to 25 part story, rather than 13 parts and get tempted into multiple additional storylines that distract too much from the ongoing ones...but yeah, it's shorter than those.
cool!
look forward to it!
Interesting
Should be good - I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.
Intriguing
Will the stories have to be read in a certain order or can we read the centre themes and then dip in and out of the others as we choose?
This could be really fascinating work.
Good luck
If you haven't read any of
If you haven't read any of the previous books or novellas in the Winnisimmet Tales Universe it's tough to understand a lot of the references to previous stories that are made or who the infrequently appearing characters are.
However as for this story itself, with the exception of the prologue and epilogue the individual story parts are self contained and while references are made to other parts as the link(the gimmick used this time) they aren't reliant on them. There's a connection between them all but not enough to force you to reread an earlier part but might require you to understand the who/what/where/why for the story part you are reading.
It's a convoluted mess but it's trying to do something different and the way it's shaping up it's looking like an epilogue for a lot of characters.