WHEN YOU SPEND YEARS WRITING A NOVEL OR A SCREENPLAY—you’d better fall in love with your characters, especially your main character. He or she may not be someone you’d choose as a friend, they may not even be a very nice person, but they must be dynamically interesting.
So for Assurity: A Space Thriller—a big story spanning a great deal of time and travel—the structure of the acts had to be configured first. (In a screenplay, this is a very formal arrangement of timing and events.) Although they may not know it consciously, the viewer expects certain events to take place. Most space sci-fi is not character-driven—it is action and event-driven, first. I wanted to make Assurity as much of a character drama as a space piece so that each character, in their own way, would contribute to the theme”Even in deepest space, He’s as close as your very breath.” You may read a synopsis of the story at: https://anthonybarbera.com/books/assurity/
Thanks for reading!
Anthony Barbera
