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Story project anyone?
fohfoh:
I considered that Harpy, but I found that at a cognitive perspective, it created a lot of gap by putting a time lapse that large.
For the record, I'm looking at writing something at a literary perspective that merges something in between a written and imaginatory sense of "The Time Traveler's Wife", "Vantage Point" and "Battle Royale". So to a certain extent, it's going to be disjointed.
Several ideas to create the introduction are as follows:
1. Narration: Issues with dealing with whom, and how it works and why there is a time lapse between story and telling.
2. Journal entries or just a narration based on individual or both? Gives a first person perspective of the situation per character basis. Time is inconsistent among the individuals probably based on their entries. But how does a story tie them together in a way that makes sense? Journals work, but seem boring to have 10? Writing a story for each work, but how the heck does that tie in with so many other stories? A combination of both seem ridiculous at best.
3. What to be used as a "shared medium" amongst stories to be noted in the introduction
a. Event
b. Location
c. What else?
Gist of idea:
Event occurs - Chaos/ Survival
Record of events from character perspective which should be somewhat independent of each other individual
@Drawing board comment: I personally envision this thing. For whatever reason, it goes in my mind semi movie, semi game and semi story.
EDIT: Forgot to mention. Keep story of characters together? Or try and mesh them together to form a more fluid and forward moving story? (So as not to create cliff hangers from one character to another) Though to a certain extent, this isn't needed if each story is somewhat vague and the reader will have to pull random bits of info from each story to create a picture (which I presume many readers might not like)
Roven:
You could tie them all to some kinda big event, it can be from real life too:
terrorism attack, big accident, witnesses to a crime, victim of something...
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Roven on May 19, 2010, 12:20:06 PM ---You could tie them all to some kinda big event, it can be from real life too:
terrorism attack, big accident, witnesses to a crime, victim of something...
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Uhh... that's the point of the story. Hence, the comment about Vantage Point and Battle Royale.
flyawave:
you could change narrator every chapter or so, that'd keep me interested!
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: flyawave on May 19, 2010, 06:51:23 PM ---you could change narrator every chapter or so, that'd keep me interested!
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Hmm... didn't think of that. lol.
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