Absolutely wonderful analysis of how to evaluate your story idea for medium and length. I'm currently working on a post: Is my character fucked up enough to carry a novel. I sometimes like to get other creators takes on a topic, specifically on YT, but I'm coming up short this time. Your post gives me some ideas on how to approach and structure this slippery topic. So thanks for this.
Great write-up, Devon. I'd never heard anyone distill the "even though"/"always" test like you have, and I had an epiphany. I'm plotting a novel this year and want it to stay open for the possibility of it turning into a trilogy or series. The "even though"/"always" test gives me a lane to set aside an aspect of the MC's character's yearnings in my WIP that can carry forward across novels. I'm bookmarking this post, for future reference.
Devon, this is brilliant. You put into words exactly what I’ve felt this past year while working on a novel idea—it’s the first idea I’ve really obsessed over and not gotten tired of, no matter how much time I spent with it. Thanks for putting together such a great post!
Lovely. Generous. Useful. Thank you for sharing.
This is a great heuristic framework to check oneself quickly before one runs away with a multiyear idea only to hate it later. :)
Absolutely wonderful analysis of how to evaluate your story idea for medium and length. I'm currently working on a post: Is my character fucked up enough to carry a novel. I sometimes like to get other creators takes on a topic, specifically on YT, but I'm coming up short this time. Your post gives me some ideas on how to approach and structure this slippery topic. So thanks for this.
Great write-up, Devon. I'd never heard anyone distill the "even though"/"always" test like you have, and I had an epiphany. I'm plotting a novel this year and want it to stay open for the possibility of it turning into a trilogy or series. The "even though"/"always" test gives me a lane to set aside an aspect of the MC's character's yearnings in my WIP that can carry forward across novels. I'm bookmarking this post, for future reference.
Devon, this is brilliant. You put into words exactly what I’ve felt this past year while working on a novel idea—it’s the first idea I’ve really obsessed over and not gotten tired of, no matter how much time I spent with it. Thanks for putting together such a great post!