Did we decide whether or not to have an intro paragraph explaining the premise?

I think we decided to start in media res and let the background story present itself naturally through environmental cues and well-paced exposition.

You're saying 'well-paced' in regards to your own creative output. That's like saying in the title of your story "Please read this story, it is very interesting."

I was saying I was going to try, not that I was going to succeed.

You've already wasted a bunch of time. No one is going to enjoy this section. It's practically mandatory that you take it out.

If I leave it in, it's a statement of defiance and an act of metanarrative heroism.

It's basically laziness and an admission that you haven't read a piece of immersive fiction in at least five years.

Probably more like three, I'd say.

On the Road is nonfiction, by the way.

Okay, four years.

Books you've read before don't count.

Alright, fine, probably more like six. Only Revolutions?

That's barely a book.

It's actually concretely and obstinately a book. You can't read it as anything other than a book. Having the physical object in your hand is the only proper way to ingest it.

Why does that mean it needs to be a book?

Well, this needed to be a story.

A story is just a way to translate an idea into reality.

You're not 'translating' anything. You're writing down the thoughts in the back of your head and then chopping apart the ones that get in the way.

That's all of them.

Just start the story, please.

Okay.

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