Monday, January 28, 2019

Expanding Plots

At this point what was to be one novel, World War 1990: The Final Storm, has become three novels: Polish Storm, Three Seas, and the Final Storm.

This has left us with plenty of paragraphs that seem bare, short, uninteresting.

You see, The Final Storm was originally conceived as sort of a command novel, where readers hear of events through messages to the CiC, radio conversations, and so on. We still do this of course, but instead of 60-65,000 words we're dealing with 200,000 - in three novels.

So a one sentence description of Italian commandos landing at the Romanian Constanta Naval base becomes several paragraphs amounting to 700 words. We describe the marines landing, reporting what they see there, etc etc.

Thus the plot flows.

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