Well, I've learn that funerals are a farce and that Orwell's prediction of the evolution of the family unit in Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn't far wrong - at least judging by the behaviour of certain individuals. But as a little toad once said; onwards and upwards, forwards and faster.
I've been working on the proposal and the extract, and trying to work out where this is going, and how to cram my idea into 7,500 words, as per suggestion by JT in our meeting - albeit a fairly informal one. It's been noted that I tend to have rather epic ideas that don't translate too well into the given word limits, with the result that extracts can leave a reader with a dis-jointed impression of what I've been trying to convey and a fractured, unclear view of the image I'm trying to present; so this time I'm going to try to keep it all within the word limit, rather than using extracts... fun.
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Still, I think the piece that I saw - which was made up of various fragments - was very well structured, and the idea of building up from fragments (just as the character's consciousness is gradually built up from fragments) is a good one.
Cheers, Jonathan
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