Writer's Fallout Shelter

I think that layering doesn't really have to have any particular, or deep, meaning to it. I can t say as I've ever written anything with a good example of layering, but at the same time I've not written anything long enough to have room to do good layering. I CAN say though that, if accomplished properly it can really make a book a NOVEL instead of just a story. One kind of layering that I find to be most impressive is one that I can't even explain. I'm so amazed when a book really has a feel, or a mood, that shows up again and again. Another kind of layering that impresses me is when, later in the book, you read something and before you're even through the sentence you're thinking "OH! So that's why this or that happened in the second chapter." After you read it it always makes so much sense, but to think of it yourself, it almost seems impossible.

I do think that a lot of layering and foreshadowing does occur unintentionally, but to really make a masterpiece, I think that you have to be able to think of your story as a single, continuous thread. You have to be able to consider every moment in your story at the same time, which i can only hope to accomplish through practice.

Hope this wasn't too serious. Hello again, by the way. I've returned from another one of my long absences.