Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27708312-20170202163909/@comment-31166511-20170220161047

Was it your intention to focus the circus story solely on the Twins? How much more development would you be doing on the supporting characters?

Because of the new environment I find myself wanting to know more about how the circus is organized and functions. How did Stan end up with a circus instead of a tourist trap? It's a plausible outcome from Stan's life choices, but it would be cool to toss in some vague hint about the specific event that caused this timeline to split off the main timeline we know from the show.

Bonus points if you could figure out how one of the time anomalies caused by the twins in "Time Traveler's Pig" was the thing that split this timeline off from our own.

I'd also like the brief mention of Soos the Strongman expanded. Soos was a ten year old when he started working as a handyman at the Shack. Stan was a father figure that appeared on the lowest day of young Soos' life.

How would Stan and Soos meet in the Circus Timeline?

Even if Stan's choices in the CT never took him to Oregon, it's possible that he and Soos could have met in any of the cities that Soos's dad sent postcards from. What if instead of resenting his father because he was abandoned, Soos lived with his single father. Soos eventually develops his resentment not because he gets postcards informing that he isn't as important as whatever the dad is busy with, but because Soos' dad constantly criticized Soos IN PERSON for being a constant distraction from actual *important* matters.

In the scene when Wendy's axe scares a woman in the audience, it would be cool to have Wendy see that the woman is someone's mom and become really sad with no explanation for the reason.

You don't have to add bunches of exposistion, but little hints that illustrate various character traits would help give the environment a fleshed out feeling.

Any half explained hints you place also make your readers feel a sense of self-congradulations that they are such good fans that they know how to interpret the clue. Which will only make your readers clamor for your next story all the more.

Always be on the lookout for ways to make a reference to information from the show, and especially to your other stories.

Continuity is the reward that authors bestow upon their readers. You don't want to overdo it; that devalues the reward. But you should throw a few bones to them now and then.