: Re: Story development: Multiple characters premises I am used to stories which have one premise which through sequential events is proven by the character. A few stories like war stories can have

Consider that there may be no central character premise, and that the story does not conclude by delivering a moral. (Typo'd as "amoral".) Perhaps the central premise is the train crash.

Within that context, how are the characters changed, individually? If they interact, is their world-view challenged? Is their sense of certainty and self worth strengthened or ruined when they rise or fail to meet the challenge? Did they lose a limb or a loved-one?

Then, step back. Do these threads weave together in harmony with each other, or is there discord? (My personal preference is to hear discord before resolution.) The story can be a meditation on how a calamity sends similar people onto vastly different personal trajectories without pandering to the (imagined) need to deliver a "message".

P.S. Try imagining the train crash as a character, and write from its perspective.

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