More on Breadcrumbs
In today's writing, I spent a good part of the time tracking down breadcrumbs across all three books of the trilogy.
Breadcrumbs - as I've written about before - are the details that recur from one part of a book to another. Things that you write that resonate later on.
In a normal book, breadcrumbs are key to creating continuity and consistency. You establish each character's features, for example, and then are sure to reference them time and again. This hopefully creates a vision of these people in your readers' eye, making them more real. Likewise, things that happen early in the book often set the context for what's going to happen. Breadcrumbs.
In this trilogy, the breadcrumbs not only have to be tracked across a single book, but across all three books. But because each story is from a different character's perspective, their "take" on the breadcrumb may be slightly different than the other two.
So, today, I spent a couple of hours noting breadcrumbs in each book, writing them done on 3x5 cards, and put comments in the documents, as well. In this way, when I'm finished with each book, I hope to be able to say each breadcrumb was introduced and resolved, and each breadcrumb manifests in each book, as appropriate for that story.
It's a lot to manage.
Breadcrumbs - as I've written about before - are the details that recur from one part of a book to another. Things that you write that resonate later on.
In a normal book, breadcrumbs are key to creating continuity and consistency. You establish each character's features, for example, and then are sure to reference them time and again. This hopefully creates a vision of these people in your readers' eye, making them more real. Likewise, things that happen early in the book often set the context for what's going to happen. Breadcrumbs.
In this trilogy, the breadcrumbs not only have to be tracked across a single book, but across all three books. But because each story is from a different character's perspective, their "take" on the breadcrumb may be slightly different than the other two.
So, today, I spent a couple of hours noting breadcrumbs in each book, writing them done on 3x5 cards, and put comments in the documents, as well. In this way, when I'm finished with each book, I hope to be able to say each breadcrumb was introduced and resolved, and each breadcrumb manifests in each book, as appropriate for that story.
It's a lot to manage.
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