T Minus 12 Hours
| Greybishop Sep 1, 06 - 8:59 AM | T Minus 12 Hours With a scant twelve hours to go, I can feel the adrenaline starting to flow. I still have to whip up GB's Special Beef Stew when I get home tonight and take care of a few chores around the homestead before midnight, so I don't have any major interruptions this weekend. The good news is: I have a plan. Surprise! Actually, all you Losties will appreciate this. The book will basically be a short adventure wherein the hero breaks into a wizard's stronghold to "take care" of said wizard. While he's making his way through the gauntlet, his origin and history will be told in a series of... Wait for it... Wait... Flashbacks! It came to me the other night on my way home. I was trying (Inside my head, it would be WAY too out of character for me to actually write this stuff down...) to organize the book in a straight "origin, adventure, resolution" timeline and it just hit me. Flashbacks. So simple and yet so elegant a solution to the problem of introducing a completely new character to readers and yet keeping the plot moving along at a swift and interesting pace. Devoting a third of a short novel to a character's origin would be a big snooze otherwise... A few of the soon-to-be-written-down plot twists are boiling away in the back of my brain as well. Yay! |
| LOSTbean Sep 1st, 2006 - 9:46 AM |  Re: T Minus 12 Hours KICK  ! And don't fall ! And, when you've had a little shuteye after it's all over, give us a full update!  |
| jas65 Sep 1st, 2006 - 11:03 AM |  Re: T Minus 12 Hours GB - break a leg! Well, not literally as you don't have time to be going to the hospital. You're a very talented writer, so you have nothing to worry about. I'll keep a good thought for you over the weekend! |
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