1. What is your story about?

The importance of keeping knowledge alive, available, and using it in a way that pervades everything. Being smart. As the world around throws curves.

2. What is your story about, though?

Striving to be smart, but knowing the chaos holds the dice.

3. What is the title of your story?
Cassandra's Fish.
4. How does your story begin?
With a suicide massacre.

5. How does your story end?
With a wedding.

6. How many narrative reversals or twists does your story have?

Um.

7. What is/are the point[s] of view of your story?
That we need fewer humans, but all trying to be intelligent.

8. Is your POV reliable? Is there in essence another POV between the lines that subtextually watches and comments your POV?

Reliable, yes. Honest, but with skews.

9. Is the fundamental outlook of your story positive or negative?
Positive.

10. How many people exist in your story, total?

Some.
11. How many of these characters are central to the story?

Um.
12. What attitude is the reader meant to have towards the central characters?

Um.

13. Does the POV of your story reflect your own gender, race, class, and outlook?

Yes.

14. Was your story structured around a particular moment or idea?

Jamestown to start with, Fortean phenomenon, the internet as redemption after the apocalypse. What happens after the world ends for most humans, what should be saved. Resonances with hidden libraries.

15. Does your story still resemble your initial conception of it?
It's gotten lost.

16. What proportion of the space in your story do you devote to dialogue, action, and internal thought?
Um. Need lots more dialogue.

19. Does your story utilize the readers’ expectations about a particular genre or trope?
Post apocalyptic eden. With talking snakes.

20. Is the takeaway of the story explicitly voiced in any particular scene?
Not yet.

21. How do you use paragraphs in your story and what is the function of your paragraph breaks?

Um.
22. How do you use different types of sentences in your story?

23. If you had to double the length of your story, what would you change?
24. If you had to halve the length of your story, what would you change?
25. Are any parts of your story intended to be suspenseful, romantic, titillating, or repulsive?
26. Do you use repetition in your story and if so how so?
27. What is the timeline of your story and how much space is devoted to which increments of time?
28. What other works have influenced this story and how does it differ from those influences?
29. What events from your own life have influenced this story and how does it differ from your life?
30. How much space do you devote to physical detail in this story?
31. How many distinct scenes are in this story and what is the function of the scene breaks?
32. Does your story have metaphorical or symbolic elements?
33. If yes, would a reader who doesn’t “get” these elements still “get” the story?
34. Is there anyone in your life that you wouldn’t want to read this story, knowing that you wrote it?
35. Is there anyone in your life that you particularly want to read this story, knowing that you wrote it?
36. If you haven’t finished this story, when do you intend to finish it?
37. If you’ve finished a draft of this story, how do you intend to go about revising it?
38. If you’ve been revising this story, when will you know when it’s “done”?
39. Is this better than the last story you wrote?
40. How can you make the next story better than this one?