Hello, doc,
But of course, I did. Earlier this month Conan O'Brien went to Japan to have a mock feud with a whole town over the alleged issue of owned royalties after his name being used. I'm only mentioning this because the author who made the town famous is actually responsible for my expanding the horizons not just on possibilities, but also on how to be more perceptive and curious on various topics. Where before my story got stuck on filling a single book and being a run-of-the-mill revenge story, it had suddenly expanded into a universe, which would still make sense if there wouldn't be a main plot waiting to be resolved.
Case in point, the summer heat wave and my technical issues with the internet have actually given me more time to think about structure and content, so a simple idea has branched out into 4 seasons (or series if you're British). There are times when I use something I call bread crumbs, dangling plot threads from previously unresolved stories. If done right, it can turn out like Lost, which, if you watch key episodes 4 or 5 times, you realize, the new creative team managed to answer some core mysteries the original creator left behind. Whenever I hit a wall where I don't know how to move further, I take a step back and analyze, which seems more feasible, to create a new situation or a new character.
Anything on this world that's older than 70 years, we're prone to perceive as eternal and older, than dirt. Yet, tea leaves are one of the most easily accessible counter proofs to that theory. Once the Brits recognized the qualities of tea, the need arose to have it mass transported. Certainly, tea, just like coffee or peanuts, have several degrees of quality, so samples needed to be produced, and that's how they got into bags. It was never intended to be brewed in such a fashion or stored that way, laziness helped with that. Even so, the supposedly highly cultured Brits in the decades of spiritualism were keen to have their future read from those leaves, and Prison Break has popularized tea bagging for something else entirely.
Ergo the way out is always simple, it's how you obscure it that gives it a unique meaning.
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