[UA] Collaborative Novel

[Sandra Palmer]

At 17:54 23/12/99 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/23/99 12:54:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>holycrow at mindspring.com writes:
>

>
>That is sweet.  Maybe the entire novel, precluding the first and last 
>chapters, should be told by other characters, and the with only the
beginning 
>and ending chapter dealing directly with the POVs of the Sleeper agent and 
>the lady Duke.
>
>In fact, maybe Chapter 1 could be the Lady Duke's POV, and Chapter X (ending 
>chapter) the Sleeper agent.

Wouldn't the other way round work better?  That way we get the initial
setup from the Sleeper, and then the Lady can pull some vicious twist at
the end.

>
>However, I think it'd be important for the chapters outside of these not
deal 
>obviously with the conflict.  We could explore more of the Occult
Underground 
>by making each chapter deal with a different element of the OU that ties in 
>with the plot.
>

Bagsie the POV of the kidnapped child, by the way.

>And this way, we could also show how ripples in the OU effect everyone else.
>

If anybody feels up to it, we could have a chapter set in the statosphere -
or else a running commentary from the statosphere between chapters.

James

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