A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-One-Hundred-And-Twenty-Seven

I keep finding more and more that seems to revolve around and into the idea for this story I wish to construct.  It is not a single story, to be honest, but a nested set of interconnected tales, I think, but maybe all of them are really the same story being told in different ways.  I am not yet certain.  I have the idea that their is a character on a journey and that they are learning different tales along the way as a part of that journey, and that they are seeking to accomplish an important task of some sort, though it isn't entirely clear.  It is a variation on a classic set of tropes, but I see, already, ways it veers off, though I can't put them into writing yet.  I also keep sensing that the dangers being faced within the work are connected the notion of the universe itself failing or ceasing in some sense.  I have an idea of that being connected to certain meta-fictional elements, though I am not certain how to describe or explain that, but I have a sense of it taking shape in ways that feel right, even if I can't yet grasp it all that firmly in a way that makes it fully coherent.  The story has a lot in it that feels intentionally derivative, in ways that are setting up subversions, but a lot that is also very different, that seems to be outside that framework, especially in terms of structural and narrative aspects, or that is the sense I have.  I think it may be that their are different layers of the text, different narrators and stories, and that some of that work will be external to the fictional reality, will extend the work to include the reader within the circle it inscribes, though how that will happen and what exactly that means are things I can't explain yet.  I have a sense that it means, in part, the inclusion of the writing of the book within the book, and intimates the reading as well, but I don't think that is enough.  I have a sense of some of this, and the way that I can use tricks to guide the reader towards a certain kind of experience with the book.  I have done things of the sort in the past, though not as extravagant as I am imagining this must be.  I think a big part of the job will need to be done by how the work is framed and how that framing involves the reader, how the reader's relationship to the text and what is within it can be shifted through the work.  This is, in a way, connected back to ideas I was talking about in previous posts, where I discussed the idea that the world in this story is undergoing some kind of ontological collapse that needs to be resolved, with the idea pointing towards the reader as a being outside of that peril, with, perhaps, the book itself as a manifestation of the efforts being depicted.  In essence, the story involves a character saving their world, I think, by manifesting it within a story in our reality.  A great deal more is involved, but that is a sort of core concept, I think, which might help me to anchor it and reel the rest in.