TGRF's Fan Fiction Chronicles - Entry #50
When I look back at what I've written over the years, it becomes clear to me that I've known what I'm doing, while having no idea what I'm doing.
Take
Dilmir. I had no idea what I was doing. I had been captured by the setting and story of
Dilmir, and just wanted to write it. I barely had an inkling of what development meant at the time, and structure was not even present in my thinking. By all rights,
Dilmir should have failed, especially given some of the paths I was considering taking the story at the time.
But
Dilmir worked (or at least I feel it did
). As I wrote it, I somehow knew what ideas would work for it and what ideas would make it worse. And with no knowledge of structure, it somehow followed the 3-act structure practically to the letter.
There were some minor deviations. For example, I'm fairly certain the midpoint happened off-screen. *internal shudder* But still, the...
