How to balance starting too soon (too much backstory) and starting too late (too little backstory) is at the core of the delicate art of story...
"The service was boring and interminable. 6 hours later I found myself thinking of my world domination plan." "It took me 5 hours to finish...
While I sketch out the higher level story flow, the details almost always come when I write. If I were to do it my way I would write one chapter...
Characters sound good (A Romeo-Juliet kind of deal due to the opposing parties). Might be hard to work in how a POW has a romance with a captor...
Anything but an explosive device that starts one of the largest wildfires of the decade and leaves millions homeless.
Also, what you can "get away with" depends a bit on how much you can remove your characters from reality. If you want to explore difficult...
TKaM is one of my favorite books. Finch was working against racism and was a very humane person. I haven't read Go Set A Watchman because of the...
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