ponderings
Nov. 15th, 2002 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashToday on the bus I thought some more about 'Drowning City' structure. I found myself toying with the idea of splitting what I have planned for the epilogue in two, and putting part of it up front, as a prologue.
Ultimately I decided this was a stupid idea. While I like narratives that play with the order things happen in (Iain [M] Banks is brilliant with this), I don't think this is right for DC. It's especially wrong to have part of the coda up front, providing a sense of destination - I know where it's going, but I don't want the reader to know this from the start, as one of the underlying themes is denying the rule of 'destiny'. Showing where things will end up, even if the connection is vague at first, hints too much at an Invisible Hand guiding events along the Proper Path.
I also thought of redesigning the original hero of the story, but settled for just a slight refinement of his look.
I did, however, come up with an interesting little flashback I may have to shoehorn in somewhere. I need to decide if it's ironic or too seemingly-prophetic.
Ultimately I decided this was a stupid idea. While I like narratives that play with the order things happen in (Iain [M] Banks is brilliant with this), I don't think this is right for DC. It's especially wrong to have part of the coda up front, providing a sense of destination - I know where it's going, but I don't want the reader to know this from the start, as one of the underlying themes is denying the rule of 'destiny'. Showing where things will end up, even if the connection is vague at first, hints too much at an Invisible Hand guiding events along the Proper Path.
I also thought of redesigning the original hero of the story, but settled for just a slight refinement of his look.
I did, however, come up with an interesting little flashback I may have to shoehorn in somewhere. I need to decide if it's ironic or too seemingly-prophetic.