Hi folks!!!
I've been lurkin' around by a year or so...Last year I presented an idea for a little saga...Then I got stuck and had to re-build things up.
Anyway, now I'm in the process of actually "first-drafting"...In the process, I found that I had to tell a part of history that...is set about 30 years BEFORE the actual "main story."
Before continuing, you should know that I'm writing in third-person limited, with a lots of povs (even incidental-ones). I wanna save the right amount of space for each event, even if little. I don't care about being "slow".
That "background-story" can be told in a limited amount of pages and serves as a guideline for two purposes:
- gives some insight of the world, its mechanisms, some basic characters that will come back later and so on...
- what happens here is the base of what will happen later, even if the subsequent events are a lot more complicated.
Now, talkin' with some friends of mine just for an opinion, I've come up with two different ideas:
- write down a book of "short tells" about the past of my world", transforming it in the "book ZERO" of the saga;
- just save some "boos-space" in book one, divide it in PARTS by default and use the first part to tell that background story, followed by a "part II" with a "30-years later" kinda title to move on.
I've tried to be as clear as I could avoiding spoilers about the plot. If you wanna some details about structure, story or other stuff to have a more in-depth idea, just let me know.
Thanks A LOT!!!
I've been lurkin' around by a year or so...Last year I presented an idea for a little saga...Then I got stuck and had to re-build things up.
Anyway, now I'm in the process of actually "first-drafting"...In the process, I found that I had to tell a part of history that...is set about 30 years BEFORE the actual "main story."
Before continuing, you should know that I'm writing in third-person limited, with a lots of povs (even incidental-ones). I wanna save the right amount of space for each event, even if little. I don't care about being "slow".
That "background-story" can be told in a limited amount of pages and serves as a guideline for two purposes:
- gives some insight of the world, its mechanisms, some basic characters that will come back later and so on...
- what happens here is the base of what will happen later, even if the subsequent events are a lot more complicated.
Now, talkin' with some friends of mine just for an opinion, I've come up with two different ideas:
- write down a book of "short tells" about the past of my world", transforming it in the "book ZERO" of the saga;
- just save some "boos-space" in book one, divide it in PARTS by default and use the first part to tell that background story, followed by a "part II" with a "30-years later" kinda title to move on.
I've tried to be as clear as I could avoiding spoilers about the plot. If you wanna some details about structure, story or other stuff to have a more in-depth idea, just let me know.
Thanks A LOT!!!