I tried to make Nancy as general-access as possible -- make everyone as general-access as possible so that they could be understood and be relevant without all the backstory. Pretty much everything I ever said about Nancy is in here as a result. :)
I'm very glad the 'slow creep of the disaster' is what you saw because the challenge of writing someone who is not part of the city hierarchy is how much they know or see. Unreliable narrators are hard. I deleted a lot of bits that seemed to perceive too much or thought too grandly about big ideas -- I got sucked into it a bit, but tried not to.
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I tried to make Nancy as general-access as possible -- make everyone as general-access as possible so that they could be understood and be relevant without all the backstory. Pretty much everything I ever said about Nancy is in here as a result. :)
I'm very glad the 'slow creep of the disaster' is what you saw because the challenge of writing someone who is not part of the city hierarchy is how much they know or see. Unreliable narrators are hard. I deleted a lot of bits that seemed to perceive too much or thought too grandly about big ideas -- I got sucked into it a bit, but tried not to.