Darkness Falls

General: Freestyle Brainstorm or Research(DF)

Remember these points from the 1st exercise of "What Ifs."

4. What if this unseen world becomes more real to Rally Witts than his previously sighted world?

5. What if Rally Witts' whole identity is wrapped up in him being able to see? What if blindness causes a deep depression, that causes him to fight for hope to live, hope to create, and joy at the new possibilities in life?

6. What if Rally Witts starts this journey as a self-sufficient atheist, who is transformed into a God-reliant believer, but only after everything else he tries,...fails?

7. What if Jessie Fide, his live-in girlfriend, who is not artistic at all, becomes Rally's hands and eyes to guide him to the canvas, where he teaches her the nuance of paint colors, but every painting is created by his own hands as she tells him where he is on the canvas, since he sees the finished piece of art in his mind?

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What if we start the novel with Rally Witts going around the graphics firm asking questions about the "problems with the lighting"? Rally could ask if maintenance has started using bulbs with a lower number of lumens. "Has someone put a sunblock screen on the windows?" "Did someone put a thick UV filter on the computer screens when I wasn't looking?"

How do I establish Rally's skills as an artist with nearly photographic paintings?

How do I show the difference between Rally's amazing skills and his approaching blindness?

How do I begin this story? Do I start when Rally is young and move forward? Or do I start with his amazing career, showing flashbacks of his early years?

Established: Rally Witts is an extraordinary painter for a quarter of a century.
Conflict Incident: When Rally is 25 years old, he loses his sight.
Possible Crutches: Jessie Fide still has her sight. Could she use the skills she does have, like sight and the ability to hand him things, to help Rally develop a career as a blind painter? Use paints with 3D texture and Jessie's sight to help hone the senses he still has, like touch, hearing, and smell to feel his way into excellent art?

How do I build to the conflict incident when the real transformation begins?

How do I describe Rally's nearly photographic painting skills to make him appear world-class compared to other artists with similar skills?

Reopen my Pinterest Account to study realistic paintings to get ideas for Rally Witts' art.