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or you could just say, "hey, there was this tree. And stuff happened."

That's exactly what I normally do. If I have strong, well developed characters, everything else just falls into place.

Smells are so hard to write, though. Well, for me anyways.

If you do decide to have the dog as the main character, would you humanize him, or leave him very dog-like? If you do humanize him, to what degree? I think that if you're going for dark comedy, you should have him be humanized (to some degree or another), and give him this really cynical personality. That would amuse me because we always think of dogs as cute and playful and childlike. Just my own thoughts/curiousities...

(i've decided that since I am not allowing myself to do any more planning on my novel, i'll plan other peoples, haha)

I wasn't thinking of humanizing him, but now that you mention it, that would be a great option.

Makes me think of this: http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_MCINTYRE/StimResponseDog.jpg (but no caption)

That's my usual format too. I write very character-driven stories, to the point I have to be careful and often in edits will need to flesh out the world around them cause I spend so much time creating them and focusing on them, the world around them gets ignored. Tis one of my personal issues when I write.

That's an interesting style, I don't know that I've come across it very often. Very nice.

We should start a "I have a blind mc, now what?" group.

I think it's a really cool concept, you should go for it!

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