A story starts with a Person in a Place with a Problem. Any or all of these three may change as the story progresses--that's why going back and rewriting the first bits so they'll more logically lead to the last bits is called "re-vision"--but I need to know them all equally well before I can even start typing.
For instance, while I haven't looked at those old issues of Yarf with In Our Image in them for quite a while, in my admittedly faulty memory, the main character--the Person--was the human guy. Tara was part of the Problem, coming into the Person's life and upending it.
I'm glad you're still at work integrating Gift of Fire and The Lighthouse, though. They're in very good shape for revisioning--again, as I recall--and tell a very effective story. As the late lamented Algis Budrys used to tell me, "Just keep going."
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Date: 2008-06-23 18:48 (UTC)A story starts with a Person in a Place with a Problem. Any or all of these three may change as the story progresses--that's why going back and rewriting the first bits so they'll more logically lead to the last bits is called "re-vision"--but I need to know them all equally well before I can even start typing.
For instance, while I haven't looked at those old issues of Yarf with In Our Image in them for quite a while, in my admittedly faulty memory, the main character--the Person--was the human guy. Tara was part of the Problem, coming into the Person's life and upending it.
I'm glad you're still at work integrating Gift of Fire and The Lighthouse, though. They're in very good shape for revisioning--again, as I recall--and tell a very effective story. As the late lamented Algis Budrys used to tell me, "Just keep going."
Mike