Category: Plot
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The end’s in the beginning
I’m 31 episodes in and I’ve just posted my first Mural Gazer story, based on Harry Sanderson’s initial entry into Mural#1 – Steam Donkey at Work. By now, I think readers will have a sense of how this book will unfold – how character, theme, plot, voice and structure can be sustained through I’m not sure…
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The Heart of the Story
“There comes a point in your life when you crave meaning, don’t you think?” Buddy explained, unable to stop himself. “I mean, something beyond the short term objectives we set ourselves, crawling up corporate ladders, buying houses in suburbia, living up to the advertising glitz? I thought, maybe, I could get beneath all that and…
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Damaged World
In Amazed, one of the concluding episodes of The Mural Gazer, Harry, helped by Buddy, navigates his way to the centre of the Labyrinth in Waterwheel Park. The journey upsets and exhausts him, leaves him feeling confused and guilty about the world he’s leaving behind… “I haven’t left you much to work with, have I?”…