Post AddpjzDmp0GAeJrpHE by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
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(DIR) Post #AddldVOCQLZsZZOLyK by asihart@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T15:21:55+00:00
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Complexity usually comes from various different characters doing their own thing. Things can branch off very quickly like that, and become very difficult to manage.I usually try to stay with just one or two characters, to keep things simple.Apart from one unfinished story, "Happy Kitten" as a whole is the winner. The most complicated of the lot being "Mobile Flesh Sculptures." It has a rotating cast of characters. It may feel a little like reading three wildly different things at the same time.I began writing the whole think in 2005. It would have been a major tome, with interweaving plots and loads and loads of characters. Divided into 3 parts it is considerably easier to follow, but there are inevitably fragments from one story-line in other stories.
(DIR) Post #AddldXVMYgUp8Ml6Po by antonyobeara@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T14:56:20+00:00
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I'm not sure how complicated the plot in The Star in the Darkness is, but one thing I noticed that I had to do was keep careful track of what characters knew about other characters and during what times they met relative to their timelines. That second part was particularly important because the elf world and the human world passed time differently, with the elf world passing time more slowly. I accomplished this by keeping a calendar which followed the human world and made notations for the days that passed in the elven world. With regard to readers, eventually I had a character reveal the different time speeds in a conversation, but mostly I revealed it by having characters refer to events in the other character's timeline so the reader can see where they sync up.
(DIR) Post #AddlgT4NVN3IFNX7ce by authorbrookeshaffer@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T15:23:58+00:00
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Probably the overarching plot of The Hands of Time that I'm working on now, especially "The Hand Holding the Knife" because it covers The Chivalrous Welshman 1-8 from the antagonists' POV. I think this is actually how I make it comprehensible; by breaking it into separate series, I can break up the character motivations and the character development arcs so the reader isn't overburdened in a single book/series.Actually, thinking about it like that, I think that it would be the entirety of The Timekeeper Chronicles. A number of overlapping stories broken up by character to form a greater narrative. Readers can follow their favorite character to get to the end and the big hurrah, or all of them and gain a fuller understanding of what's going on.
(DIR) Post #Addlknfsq2IHJJ8rI0 by lordjestocost@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T14:57:40+00:00
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"Skin in the Game" probably has my most complex plot, and even that's not too complicated so I don't worry about readers not being able to follow.In several places, I went back and put in details foreshadowing or setting up revelations that came later so nothing seems to come out of the blue.
(DIR) Post #AddpjzDmp0GAeJrpHE by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T16:23:32+00:00
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Salt, Sand, and Blood probably had the most complex plot structure; however, that complexity was me punching way above my weight (I doubt I could pull it off even now). It was a kind of dual plot tied into deep lore and side character backstories.I tried to keep the story comprehensible by focusing on the simple, superficial plots of each cast of protagonists while dropping frequent hints and making lots of allusions to the lore and history. This might have worked had I written the characters and their stories well themselves, but I failed to balance the placing of the stakes in said characters' immediate plot arcs (pushing them into a future reveal and tie-in).Complexity does not correlate with quality, though it does make the novice novelist feel smart at the start of his career.
(DIR) Post #Addpk6Tzp8NxAcVN0y by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T16:15:24+00:00
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My ENTIRE TimeFighters story series is one complex and convoluted plot. It comes with the territory when it comes to time travel and alternate realities. I basically keep a “Story Bible” to keep things consistent/connected, then weave other plots within it.
(DIR) Post #Ade1NUrAEgK9YNKPeS by usagitenshi@www.minds.com
2024-01-08T18:25:44+00:00
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The main brick. There's something like a dozen or more characters scattered across a continent all seemingly doing their own thing with the larger plot looming like an unnoticed ICBM coming towards them all.....for it all to come together at the end and the various characters to meet and start working towards the same goal, which it turned out they all were they just didn't know it yet