Tag: WWI
From Gothic to Gotham #2
I heard an interview with someone who said that a minority of people hear voices in their heads narrating their lives – I thought everyone did. I always hear voices and that’s probably why I am drawn to Quakers, where the goal is to silence the chatter.
While I write, I hear speaking – many voices, many emotions – narration, conversation. Sometimes I awake in the night and hear them resolving a plot twist, and have to scramble for pencil and paper to write it before it’s gone. And when I draw, and pace the movement of story through panels, I hear the talk and the pauses. Then while I paint and ink… more voices. Sadly they don’t all agree on one version! The story changes and I am left with a multiverse to edit back to something linear.

Do I ask for too much from my readers?
Will readers stay with the story if I ask them to jump back and forth through time? My current story features an elder nurse looking back through a scrapbook she made in WWI (over 60 years prior). She talks about the photographs in the book and remembers the people. On this page, the elder woman’s hand rests on a photo in her scrapbook, while she remembers the soldier when he was a boy, and also remembers when he was her injured patient in France… that’s three timelines on one page. I’m still unconvinced whether this page works… what do you think?
