It would be cool to write a story in chunks that were relatively ambiguous without context. Chapters that start like, “she didn’t know what to do”. You could read the same chapter twice and it have a different meaning depending on the one that came before it
that is actually a brilliant idea. I’m not sure if it has been done in fiction (probably.). But for what this would sound like, look up “Canto Ostinato”. The version by Eric Hall is pretty good, but this is a modular piece of minimal music that could almost go on forever depending on how the performer chooses to perform the different “cards” of it.
That’s circular reasoning.
I’ll bet many readers on Reddit are wondering what a “Rolodex” is!
The plot comes and goes
The Childlike Empress appears in the last/first page.
It’s Stephen King’s Gunslinger books! (gonna need a bigger Rolodex)
Wizard King be like
It would be cool to write a story in chunks that were relatively ambiguous without context. Chapters that start like, “she didn’t know what to do”. You could read the same chapter twice and it have a different meaning depending on the one that came before it
Like all those TikTok/YouTube shorts that end with “and that’s why…” so that when it loops the video it makes a complete sentence.
that is actually a brilliant idea. I’m not sure if it has been done in fiction (probably.). But for what this would sound like, look up “Canto Ostinato”. The version by Eric Hall is pretty good, but this is a modular piece of minimal music that could almost go on forever depending on how the performer chooses to perform the different “cards” of it.
That’s how Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce works.
What’s wrong with the classic “… and then I woke up. It had all been a dream.”?
Never ending story 🎶