STORYSPACE: Plot Points
You can read your own work a zillion times and yet when you’re looking for something in particular, breaking a story down into sequencing of plot points, you see it in an entirely different way. In Paths, since I’m attempting to make a more interesting maze that remains logical and flowing from a beginning to an end, I’m looking for the areas in which I can allow wandering off into foreshadowing and backstory that will still come around to the main trail and go forward.
One of the best uses of Storyspace is in separating the plot points into the series of text boxes that build upon yet remain aloof from each other. These mini stories will become loops that serve as the plot points. In the end, these plot points not onlyy move the narrative forward, but enhance each other by alluding to a story that is never really put into words.
So yes, I’ve made yet a third version of Paths and am placing the blocks in different piles to build a new structure.
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