the morning has brought with it new possibilities, as it is wont to do. i haven't cracked the code, per se, but i've made progress. time, in this story, is a spiral. the narrative ought to be structured such that tracing a transversal line through it — cutting though any two (or more) points in the story — would see Barbara in the same "place" *despite* these points being wholly different spacetimes. at the *same* time, however, there *must* exist the feeling of moving inwards/outwards. not, perhaps, so evident at the local scale, but more and more visible the more one steps back and examines the story at the macro.
this is a trial. an experiment. an exploration, as the site sub-header says. i have no clue what i'm doing or what this will become — but here we are for now.
figuring comics timelines is always a pain. at least i am not doing it all from scratch, but rather using someone else's (*cough* teland *cough*) extremely well-thought out and -researched timeline as a starting point. combined with my own research, it's a pretty solid starting point indeed. it is just that there are so many blanks to fill in, so many variables to keep track of...
brick by brick.
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live-blogging.
i can't figure out what the timeline of this story is, where i want it to go. i tend to figure out the ending quite early on in my writing process, but it is not coming to me this time. nor have i found an *anchor*, so the whole thing is just... adrift. floating suspended above my head, refusing to settle down into a coherent shape.
it is a study of time. i know this. time is the core of this story. it is both ironic and paradoxically fitting that what is stumping me is the chronology of events/development. what *about* time? what is the *conclusion* to be reached, the lesson to be learned?
where is the *entropy* in the story?