Remember me. The story behind the story (part 4)

The perfection in a story.

Precision and perfectionism... those are two aspects that obsess me when I write. I know that many will think that being a perfectionist can be a mistake rather than a success, but if it is not, the opposite can happen: incoherence.
A story imposes a challenge on the writer and not everyone is capable of facing it. That is why a writer needs some prior preparation before setting out to write a story. The lexicon he uses in telling, the way he does it and his own knowledge, acquired throughout his life, will be his tools for the development of his story.
The lack of time to write is a great enemy of the story that attacks the writer in demerit of his work and that is why, unfortunately, in a large part of the scripts is not necessary emphasis on that important aspect of the plot what is: precision. You can see that, one thing that happens a lot lately in books and movies, is that you underestimate the person who receives the message that goes into the story, the reader or viewer is very attentive to the details as it is left take the plot and any failure in it will make you feel that the work is not careful enough, but why some writers allow that to happen? The answer is very simple: lack of preparation or lack of time.

For me, writing is a pleasure and I like that the story becomes difficult to tell in a simple way, I enjoy thinking about the most intricate ways in which a situation can be resolved and how it can escalate in complexity, to an unexpected outcome. For example, in Remember me the stories of the characters are intermingled in the present and the past, because as a consequence of the central theme, which is reincarnation, the story has many flashbacks that transport the reader to stories of a past that goes back decades and sometimes they are seen from the perspective of different characters and everything has to fit as if they were the pieces of a complex puzzle.

When I developed this novel I reviewed every aspect, however insignificant it may seem: travel times in different means of transport, departure and sunset times at different times of the year, topographies of the land and places, climate and temperature according to the season (which affect the way of dressing), etc ...
Obviously, the larger aspects are perfectly checked, such as the ages of each of the characters and the necessary times in their lives to acquire the skills they display.
For me to maintain the verisimilitude is very important; When I wrote Remember me, I lived it in my mind as real and my intention is for the reader to live it in the same way that I did.
For me, perfection and detail are, finally, a sign of the love a writer has for his work.