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@caseybold “rather than the author sticking too much of his personal narration in.”

What did you mean by this?

@jennythefaun “Starting the book about two steps away from the climax (at least that’s how it felt to me) also makes it challenging to keep subsequent events interesting and tense enough…we’ve got a main villain. We’ve got a main goal. So how long do we have to wait for the final battle?”

Interesting point. How much of the rest of the book do you think will be in 1984? (also, I just realized how many books I’ve read that take place in that year. I’m imagining a giant postmodern literary epic with a hundred different PoVs all taking place in 1984 in the same world across Earth and the local galaxy) Since we’re so close to what’s clearly the climax in chapter one, do you think we’ll spend most of the rest of the book in ’72? And if that’s the case, do you think that’s a good technique or a lazy one?

“I liked how Chris Fabry opened up Matt’s inner world BY changing his external world”

I hadn’t thought of it like that, but it makes sense.

@allertingthbs “Bringing us back to Matt’s youth gives us a chance to see him shape into the person he becomes,”

That’s a good point. We can kind of subtract past Matt from present Matt to see the ways he’s going to change over the story.