Philosophizing in Fiction

Usually my muse starts with a moment, from which I have to build back and forth to the beginning and ending.  Occasionally just back or forth. . . .which has its problems.

Then, there are the other times, where the idea is somewhat More Abstract.  Sometimes purely aesthetic -- if you tweaked Romeo and Juliet so that the twosome realized their only chance lay in escaping the stupid city, could you make a comedy of it? -- sometimes delving into other philosophical matters -- would one of those "mirror universes" where morality is inverted really work?  Which have their own problems, and I think they're the worse.

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