I'll have to read this when I finally catch up, but I find myself in a similar predicament as you do in regards to telling a story out of order.
When I was doing my Retelling Myths series, I had included several retellings of various stories from the Arthurian Legends (King Arthur and co.). Since I kinda just picked stories by the month to retell, there wasn't any real order to them - they were all meant to be one-offs.
By the end of it, it turns out that I had, through seven or so short stories, unwittingly told an overview of the events of Camelot's rise and fall... BACKWARDS! 😆
I'm still very proud of them, and they work very well backwards... but only if you already have a familiarity with the Arthurian Legends... 😅
So, like you, I'm planning on reordering those stories that's more friendly to newcomers, so that the tension isn't already lost at the very beginning... 😆
That sounds like a super cool project though. I'm not very familiar with Arthurian legends. Retelling would be a cool way to get into them.
Taking it piece by piece is kind of the fun of it though, right? I'm more of a pantser than a planner. I like to play in the sandbox and try to make something out of the crumbling castles
Glad to hear that you had a good Christmas! 😄
I'll have to read this when I finally catch up, but I find myself in a similar predicament as you do in regards to telling a story out of order.
When I was doing my Retelling Myths series, I had included several retellings of various stories from the Arthurian Legends (King Arthur and co.). Since I kinda just picked stories by the month to retell, there wasn't any real order to them - they were all meant to be one-offs.
By the end of it, it turns out that I had, through seven or so short stories, unwittingly told an overview of the events of Camelot's rise and fall... BACKWARDS! 😆
I'm still very proud of them, and they work very well backwards... but only if you already have a familiarity with the Arthurian Legends... 😅
So, like you, I'm planning on reordering those stories that's more friendly to newcomers, so that the tension isn't already lost at the very beginning... 😆
Oops!! Haha.
That sounds like a super cool project though. I'm not very familiar with Arthurian legends. Retelling would be a cool way to get into them.
Taking it piece by piece is kind of the fun of it though, right? I'm more of a pantser than a planner. I like to play in the sandbox and try to make something out of the crumbling castles