There are two type of story tropes that I particularly enjoy. I've never written any like it, but they are well-known and usually well-liked. My next project is going to be my own effort to bring them both together.
I love movies with multiple divergent yet congruent and intersecting story lines and character arcs. At the beginning of the story, you have multiple characters, none of whom seem to have any relationship with the others. By the end of the movie, you recognize where and why they all intersect, and usually they intersect in ways that the reader or watcher would never have suspected.
I think what is compelling about this style of storytelling is that the reader stays rapt with attention because they know that eventually it must all come together. When they do, it's usually rewarding. When they don't, the reader is disappointed. It can make or break an entire book.
The other story trope I particularly enjoy is those that revolve around time travel and the idiosyncrasies that come about due to time travel. Think Tenet or The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
These stories are fun because they ask the reader or watcher to step outside their normal lines of thought and the logic that they usually use as their thought foundations. They make you bust up that foundation and consider rebuilding it differently. They're unsettling for this reason, but ultimately satisfying because we recommit to our foundations in the end, but now we've thought a bit differently.
Could Atlas do this well? It's the one story that I can think of that brings these two tropes together in an interesting and effective way.
This is my next goal. To write like that.
We'll see.
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