STORYSPACE: The Hanging Redefined & Regenre’ed
The story that wouldn’t make itself known beyond the details of the characters and a death has taken a turn that’s not exactly sci fi but will be leaning towards magical realism bordering on fantasy. I had an itch to try my hand at a completely new genre but just don’t get the urge to create mythical creatures or alien anime. The thrust that The Hanging lacked for me–and this, quite far into the narrative–may be the very opening for a more mystical and philosophical romp through a metaphor of mankind.
Here’s a new beginning:
And here’s the building blocks that need to be taken apart and reassembled into a different pattern of ideas, many of which will be discarded in the new schematic as it develops itself:
There is a tightrope that lays itself out in the story and there is a new form of structure that wants to be fragile steel.
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