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So
I've been doing my silly goofy little worldbuilding project (which I have yet to write anything down but shhhhhhh)
And I realized that if I ever publish the stories in it as books (or share the stories at all), to avoid spoilers, people would have to read them in near backwards chronological order. Because each story is so dependent on the reader not knowing what happened in the past before it, if that makes sense.
If we order the stories 1-7 chronologically, the reading order would literally be 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 7. (The last story is an outlier, and would need to come last, because it would spoil everything if you read it first.)
Honestly it's kind of a vibe, but I also think people would get mad so lol.Β
Like star wars but much, much weirder.
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Well, you see, because the first part of this I ever created was technically 6 right? with no thought to more stories in the world. But then I started writing backstory's for the characters that would be revealed as plot twists in 6. But those backstories are only the tip of the iceberg of what actually happened, thus the need to tell it as it's own story (like how the star wars prequels spoil who Darth Vader is). This is makes up number 4.
Then there's 5, which is also backstory for characters in 6, but happens a significant time after 4, so it has to be a separate story. And as stated above, the mystery and plot twist in 6 depend on you not knowing what happens in 4 and 5.
So what about 3? Well 3 is backstory for characters introduced in 5, and isn't vital to 5's plot, so it needs to be it's own story as well. Not to mention how 3's plot has little too nothing to do with 6, and is literal hundreds of years ago at that point, so there's no point telling 3's events with 6.
And 2? 2 is backstory for a character who is in all of the above mentioned stories (immortality shenanigans) but is only massively relevant until 3, so if i tell 3, I need to tell 2. But I can't tell 2 before 3 because 2 spoils 3's plot twists.
And 1? Well 1 is the least fleshed out of them all, and doesn't have much plot. However, it needs to exist for story reasons.
7 gets tacked on the end because it spoils everything.Β (The way lotr spoils the hobbit (kinda)), and is important because it's the fulfilment of the massive overarching story at work through all of this.
*deeps breaths*
So yes, I could rewrite it to . . . not be this way. But I really like how the story and characters are. The drama and the tension between characters plays out in an interesting way that I'm happy with.
I'm good plot outline I've got, and if it means a weird reading order I'm okay with that.Β
SpoilerAlso, I might mention that if you've already read it through once, you can read again in chronological order with no issues. There will even be references you can only pick up on if you've already read it all once over.
SpoilerBut for now this all exists in brain and will do so until I have the guts to start writing things down
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