Two stories in one

[Bazzle]

Has anyone else tried it?

Did it confuse more than entertain?

I'm hoping hoping mine will be ready for Halloween season, but I just thought I'd ask if peeps had tried this silly idea already?

B

 

[Bamagan]

Has anyone else tried it?

Did it confuse more than entertain?

I'm hoping hoping mine will be ready for Halloween season, but I just thought I'd ask if peeps had tried this silly idea already?

B

Do you mean a story where the characters tell a story to each other? Yes, but not here.
Or do you mean a single 'story' entry that contains two unrelated vignettes? Yes, although serialization eventually ties everything together.
Or do you mean a story that's a massive palindrome that can be read from beginning to end and back again? No, but that would be a hell of a mic drop if it were done.

 

[Bazzle]

The two stories are related to each other. The author of the second is the protagonist of the first?

 

[Duleigh]

Yes

My story A Krissmas Karole and Chapter 11 of We're a Wonderful Wife are the exact same story told from 2 different view points

Nobody seemed to notice

 

[Bazzle]

Yes

My story A Krissmas Karole and Chapter 11 of We're a Wonderful Wife are the exact same story told from 2 different view points

Nobody seemed to notice

Thanks I will have a read!

 

[Fatdog25]

The two stories are related to each other. The author of the second is the protagonist of the first?

Hey! You! Get out of my head! Now!

My Lit 25 story follows this format. I'm about halfway through the first draft.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Has anyone else tried it?

Did it confuse more than entertain?

I'm hoping hoping mine will be ready for Halloween season, but I just thought I'd ask if peeps had tried this silly idea already?

B

I intertwined two non-contemporaneous quasi-biographical stories into one in A Good Woman, to create a kinda what if? But that’s maybe not what you had in mind.

In Determination, the FMC (who is meant to be my great granddaughter) re-enacts a scene from another of my stories, Because I Deserve It.

Em

 

[Djmac1031]

You talking like Pulp Fiction style? Where a bunch of vignettes, seemingly unconnected, come together in the end?

Interesting idea for sure.

 

[Altissimus]

For the Ogg Memorial on Heroism, I wrote a confluence of vignettes that I called A Confluence of Vignettes in which a number of vignettes came together in a confluence.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

For the Ogg Memorial on Heroism, I wrote a confluence of vignettes that I called A Confluence of Vignettes in which a number of vignettes came together in a confluence.

It was a good read, too!

 

[MillieDynamite]

I told two first-person accounts of the same event in a story called He Said, She Said. There was a third-person conclusion to the story. Don't look for it here it isn't on Lit.

 

[Bazzle]

I told two first-person accounts of the same event in a story called He Said, She Said. There was a third-person conclusion to the story. Don't look for it here it isn't on Lit.

ooh sounds interesting.

 

[MillieDynamite]

It was an early endeavor. Not sure it is any good. I'm afraid even to read it these days.

ooh sounds interesting.

 

[AllenWoody]

In my four-chapter Lost Ark series, there is a current-day story. As it proceeds, the backstory is revealed through diaries, video diaries, security-cam footage, interviews, etc. So, effectively two stories in a single narrative. Not sure if this sort of thing is what you meant.

 

[StillStunned]

I've been thinking about writing a follow-up to Fun with Fingers, but told from Nicola's perspective: why she did it, what she expects will happen now that she's been caught, what actually does happen...

 

[KeithD]

On "two stories in one," my crime story entry "Capital Treasures" originally was two stories, with the second one published as a follow up bonus story to the first. For this exercise, though, I just made the second one the last chapter of the first one.

 

[Bramblethorn]

"Copper Coin" is story-within-a-story: in a modern-day setting, the protagonist's housemate woos her by telling her a "1001 Nights" style fairytale romance. Seems to have worked out.

 

[Whanmore]

My whole sitiuation is two stories in one...for now. Everything rocks together in my universe