Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-5170510-20191221011957/@comment-5170510-20191228012139

RCain: Well originally I was going to make it a sort of David Paulides style of analytical storytelling as part of my Horrors of the Battlefield series: where a writer/journalist (me) takes an objective stance at retelling the stories of situations soldiers have found themselves in and recounted to him somehow, offering little input himself. What interested me was not only did no one ever find this base until really recently, despite the fairly clear documentation about it, but the reason it was abandoned. Given that I'm taking the official story and twisting it, I see no way to lead with that without obviously spoiling the story too quickly. I may still use this format once the overall arc has made its way onto paper and been fleshed out, sorta like how my "author" does it where he takes a full testimony and summarizes it.

As it currently stands, the main character leads with his attitude of wanting instead to fight on the front and his last goodbye to his brother who is an officer in the Kreigsmarine before he ships out. There's definitely room to improve, I think maybe I just need to get it all out and then I can start to carve the shape as it were.