A World Beyond the World (Part 3)
Another feeling I wanted to capture was that kind of magical escape, think the wardrobe that lead to Narnia in the C.S. Lewis tale. Or the James Cameron film Avatar starring Sam Worthington, those beginning scenes leading up to the full reveal of Pandora. That sort of deep breath and plunge into a world that was completely different from our own. But there needed to be some kind of bridge to our world, some kind of passageway that would lead you to this new place. That's when the idea of interconnected universes began to root itself into the story. It became a way to bridge the real world, our world, with the fantastical world of Talmoria. A way to bring characters into the story who would otherwise not fit the timeline.
Having a character from our world go into the world of Talmoria made it so that we could experience the story with fresh eyes, seeing things from the perspective of someone naive to the working of this new land. As we see the world for the first time, so do our characters. And the deeper into the land the characters went, the more things begin to change for them. And the longer I wrote about Shawn and Manie the more I realized how central to the story these two characters were. It became apparent that Shawn and Manie WERE the story. Everything these characters felt and suffered through changed and molded them into real people. And no matter what happened, they never parted from each other.
It made me realize how important that moral would be to the story. Having characters who, no matter what, stood at each other's back. Loyalty even in the face of certain doom. Friendship at the cost of everything.
Having a character from our world go into the world of Talmoria made it so that we could experience the story with fresh eyes, seeing things from the perspective of someone naive to the working of this new land. As we see the world for the first time, so do our characters. And the deeper into the land the characters went, the more things begin to change for them. And the longer I wrote about Shawn and Manie the more I realized how central to the story these two characters were. It became apparent that Shawn and Manie WERE the story. Everything these characters felt and suffered through changed and molded them into real people. And no matter what happened, they never parted from each other.
It made me realize how important that moral would be to the story. Having characters who, no matter what, stood at each other's back. Loyalty even in the face of certain doom. Friendship at the cost of everything.
