A meander is a shape
Apr. 19th, 2014 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliSo the muse is fooling around with some ideas. . .
Set some characters loose in a location where there are some problems, stemming from the same main problem -- which is fixed at the beginning, they are cleaning up the aftermath.
They will slowly see a big problem, but at first it's as random as a sword and sorcery series of short stories, with a fair chunk of bildungsroman to it, which is good because a bildungsroman can tolerate a much looser and more meandering shape than a quest.
However, it's still a shape. Even in the beginning, I find myself wrestling with the notion of which of these stories would happen first -- even though they are obviously the preliminary tales, that start them off dealing with the problem.
sigh
Set some characters loose in a location where there are some problems, stemming from the same main problem -- which is fixed at the beginning, they are cleaning up the aftermath.
They will slowly see a big problem, but at first it's as random as a sword and sorcery series of short stories, with a fair chunk of bildungsroman to it, which is good because a bildungsroman can tolerate a much looser and more meandering shape than a quest.
However, it's still a shape. Even in the beginning, I find myself wrestling with the notion of which of these stories would happen first -- even though they are obviously the preliminary tales, that start them off dealing with the problem.
sigh