I’ve started writing again and I’ve just had a brilliant idea that will multiply my work by a lot but it’s so cool I have to try it.
I came up with the idea of alternate endings because the original ending didn’t satisfy me, so I got to thinking, what if there were alternate versions of every chapter? You could read through the book in multiple different ways, creating several different stories. You can read through the book one way, then go back and go in a different direction. That would be so cool.
Since there are two endings the story can’t branch out infinitely, it has to converge, which makes things easier for me. So it will be something like:
And it has to be that way the initial bifurcation would be the most important one and would determine the ending. If there wasn’t a convergence at the end there would always be some path from which one ending was not accessible. Maybe. I’m not thinking clearly. I need sleep and I’m making sloppy mistakes. Maybe there’s a way around it that I’m not seeing.
If we go by the second model, which is a whole lot easier, without the convergence then node 4D would have no path to 6A, and 4A would have no path to 6B, which would make the story at least in part deterministic.
I have no idea. I’m going to have to sleep on this.