The Book of Josiah - Behind the Scenes - 1

GENESIS
My inspiration usually comes from structures rather than characters - with Radiance the idea was to create a story around the 10 sefirot of the kabbalah, for the Book of Josiah, my first novel, the idea was different:

-What if there was a man who got younger the further into the future he went?

Which led to this thought:

-What if there were were three storylines, each set at different points in the future but the further into the future they went, the younger the main character became?

Casting my mind back to when I first began to write this story (I think I must have been around 16 at the time), I think that one of my main motivators behind this structure was to cheat around the size of a novel. Not being certain that I had one novel's worth of plot within me, I decided to write three interweaving stories instead, choosing to divide and conquer.

Cont. after the jump.

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