Analysis and execution (a multipart tale)

[Maxmars]

I’m intrigued by this first part of your story, Maxmars. Entering an ongoing conversation is a great way to begin a story… once the reader is involved, you can’t help but continue reading.

Role playing used for professional ends is something I had experienced back in my teens. At sixteen years of age I worked in a supermarket, was rapidly promoted and eventually given the opportunity to enter a managerial training program. On induction day, they put all the trainees in a large room, divided us into groups and gave us specific roles to play and a series of problems to solve. At the time I was too young to know what that was about, but later figured out that we were being observed. They were trying to figure out who would take command, who cooperated and followed the leader, who caused friction in the group, etc..; more importantly, they were looking for those who deviated from their given role if the task was not progressing. In short, they then assigned us to different supermarket branches based on their appraisal of where we would be best suited.

So, I appreciate you exploring this subject, but I also feel the story is going to be enthralling; there are many deep relationships between your characters that leaves me curious to see how they will develop.

Hungry for the continuation…

E

Thank you for the encouragement.  Not being a professional writer, I have to admit these stories sometimes (no, scratch that,) "often" have a strong tendency to "write themselves"... effectively leaving me scratching my head as to how it will unfold.  Not so much in the thrust of the story, but it's minutiae... mostly manifesting in the 'relationships' department.  It is difficult for me because sometimes the nature of the relationships makes the telling of a story quite tricky, especially if the story embraces the totality of the group.  Weirdly, I don't set characters up to be 'fixed' as I imagine the tale... they can manifest villainy or heroics, happiness, or distance, or anything in between in each reveal - afterwards leaving me with the responsibility of making sense of it all.  Perhaps it's a writing 'psychosis' of some kind... 

The part 2 will follow in a few days...

... but here in the "web"-world, I can judge (dis)interest and avoid fretting over something that no one will read anyway... it's a shame about all I "lost" in that other place where I used to post... I'll never forgive them.