Still Not a Robot

Still Not a Robot

Perspective Conundrum for Compendium

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Alia Luria
Oct 05, 2013
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I'm glad to report that I have the general plot of my first Compendium novel worked out. I currently have a four page synopsis drafted. I definitely need to work more on my world-building, but I will probably start jumping in to writing prose now, and continue thinking about my world as I go. I will also need to flush out my synopsis as well. I am one of those people that loves to have a ten or twenty page outline that gives me a sense of every scene in the book. Of course, this novel is much more complex than my last attempt, so I have some nerves regarding that.

That leads me to my next conundrum, which is the narrator. I keep waffling back and forth between having Mia narrate the entire novel and switching perspective characters in a manner similar to A Song of Fire and Ice (although I would have far fewer perspective characters). Since I am trying to develop the overall series into an epic fantasy series, multiple perspective will likely be accepted (and possibly expected) througho…

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