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Originally Posted by crich70
The point I was trying to convey is that usually a story is crystallized down to an individual character's problem that must be solved. In David Kitson's "Turing Evolved" for example the main character is known as Jonathan Carlson and the story focus's on him and his life. I'm not going to make a lot of comments on Mr. Kitson's story here since I don't want to spoil the plot, but it is very much Jon Carlson's story from start to finish. In your blurb you state a goal for the group and what motivates them and give an idea of why it isn't going to be easy, but you don't single out anyone as being the focal point. For example if one of the characters is engaged to be wed and his views on the events in the story are in conflict with the views of his fiancee's family and thus threaten to tear them apart. The story becomes more personalized then. You could have little tidbits of info. throughout the blurb that give an idea of how some of the characters will be affected on a personal level. I haven't read the actual book as yet and am only suggesting broad ideas to improve the blurb so as to draw more attention. What the 'personal' effects of the conflict will be depends on what your characters actually go through. From the general to the specific.
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Hi Crich70,
In "The Islamic Egypt", the persons disappear in the whole. In Egypt as well as the world, the individuals disappear in the movements of the history. Although it is the present and not the history yet, the narrator can be described as a historian. The narrator sees with the eyes of the historian and hears with the ears of the historian. My idea may be different and you may not agree with it. But I think that my idea can be given a chance.