But I don't think the two of them
falling in love
is the driving piece of narrative bones. It's important only because the plot deals of how they will resolve and deal with this fact given the constraints of their life that is interesting.
I think the book is actually plotted well and I love the jumbled up timeline. Everyone I have spoken to has said that at some point they have two realizations. The first is that the dates on the chapters matter and the second is
WRT Bailey and his importance
which most everyone doesn't realize until it begins to happen.
To me it was a big deal, because it's what changed
the conflict from "who will win?" to "how will they both avoid losing?"
The first is that the dates on the chapters matter
Oh dear. I'm planning on doing it via audiobook (if the library has it), so I'll have to pay special attention!
I went back and forth from the text to the table of contents on different devices, and went back and made a note at the start of each chapter what had just happened.
I haven't taken notes on a piece of fiction in donkey's years. And I was never that good at it, but the events that were a year apart totally confused me until one of the characters called out it had been a year since the previous chapter's events.
I would either have been much more confused with a audiobook, or maybe I wouldn't pick up enough to work out it was confusing.
Maybe this belongs in another thread, but Moxie (Magda Pecsenye) of Ask Moxie (kid advice) has written a book proposal and is interested in recommendations for an agent or publisher. Her request is here: [link] I went to college with her, so if you're uncomfortable saying something publicly let me know and I can hook you up.
erinaceous's sister Kate reps nonfiction, for what that's worth.
I just hit my first character death in
Game of Thrones.
They're all going to blindside me and make me wonder if that really just happened, aren't they.
They're all going to blindside me and make me wonder if that really just happened, aren't they.
Yes.
Now I'm trying to remember who the first one was. (I think I remember, but I don't want to ask, since if I'm wrong, and the person I'm thinking of is the second, then I would have spoiled it.)
