Chaos

I did some more thinking about the new stories/series I’ve been brainstorming. I thought some ideas would come to mind when I went out for a run Tuesday, but instead hit me as I was going to bed that night. You can never tell when the muse will visit. The thought I had was this: chaos. As in the way I envisioned the start of events was too smooth, too…expected. I realized I need to throw in a lot of the unexpected. And what’s weird is that my original intent was to put characters into random settings, to let some element of chance prescribe how their initial scenes will unfold. Instead, the chaos needs to be less random, something planned out by a person behind the scenes. I know that sounds odd, to invoke chaos by plan instead of chance, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. I’d avoided the idea because I thought it would be more chaotic to have people encounter random conflicts, but the real conflict will be that it was all planned. That should cause plenty of chaos.