Four more critiques of One-Two, and I might be beginning to see the issues that I need to address... important, because addressing these issues will be vital to addressing the entire Manassas universe. The comments and suggestions and criticisms have all been spot-on and so very appreciated.
(Pause to discuss how many insects we should order. "We could handle 500 in that aquarium." Yeah, we are buying bugs again.)
Here are some of the hurdles I have with Manassas. 1. I love the universe. I think this makes me particularly blind to issues. 2. The time line is shifty. It could not be described as linear. 3. Neither could the plot. (Although, it is true that a line on a mobius strip is a real line, and so if this plot is an inside-out ouroboros, which is really interesting mathematically, the line itself exists. It's just bendy.)
4. The magic of Manassas really does represent the dark reality shifts in families. You can leave your house and get a clear head for a little while about toxic behavior patterns; you can even convince yourself that it doesn't exist, but when you step back over the threshold, the old patterns take hold yet again. There is no escaping the darkness of family dysfunction, and yet if you give it up, you give up the family. You give up life and everything important. This is a good and important subject, but it takes wrestling and great concentration to get "right". I'm nowhere near perfection yet. Believe me.
5. There are a lot of Manassas stories to tell.
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