A Writer's Notebook, Day Six-Hundred-And-Fifty-Seven

I am still in the process of making plans for the new novel that I have been talking about recently.  I am focused, right now, on certain aspects of the larger plot arc.  I want the structure of the plot and the journey it depicts to serve as the backbone for the central allegory I want to work into the book.  I have discussed the approach I often take towards serious issues in my work, which is to attempt to reflect them but outside their context, so that the normal.biases a reader brings can be disarmed.  As I said, the center of this book is about a haunted house, and I want to have that house be a character in the story, the central character of it.  To me, the house has a real journey from being a loved home to being abandoned and, as this continues, a place that is dilapidated and has become terrifying, a place that is hateful.  Their is more in this, but I want to build the story so that the reader empathizes with the house and understands, and I think I can do that in a way that reflects understandings about things in the world today, in a way that is not direct or obvious.  I am not certain how much sense this makes, it is quite late, and is also still rather tenuous in general.

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