Hmmm....to recap the last couple of days doesn't take much. Yesterday I went shopping with my brother, then ducked out on Jess's birthday celebration (G-Master and I made up for it by buying her a present, though), and went to a movie with my bro and cousin in the evening. Today I worked. Nothing really else to say. I did get a phone call from Meredith today. That was lovely, as usual. Sorry for the boring post. I honestly don't have anything else to say.
Wait. I take that back. I mentioned on here probably about a month ago that I was having issues with the plot structure of my longest work yet. Well, even though I haven't touched any of my pieces in about a month, I have been thinking of possible solutions to my problem. And I think I finally found one. The only question is how confusing it will be to the reader. You see, this whole time I've only been thinking one dimensional -- to tell the story of David, my main character, pretty much the whole story has been told from David's point of view. Now I understand, though, that his the next half of the story needs to come from Geoff. And through Geoff we can truly understand David. Only like one or two of you have read what I've written, but that doesn't matter. Where I'm at right now is like the climax of my intended plot line, thus is near the end. My plan is to make what I've written Part 1. Now I'm going to go back in time through the character of Geoff and tell of his relationship with David starting with when they first became friends and through the current time....and at the end of Part 2 with be the resolution to Part 1 and, ultimately, the entire story. That's my solution....I'm just worried that the reader will get confused. Why not just put Part 2 as Part 1, you may be asking yourself? Because I think it's important to start In Medias Res (in the middle of the story) and go from there. We'll see how that goes.
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