Allocating Quotes

Just finished an editing session, and working at the key quotes of the book, and making sure that they are said by the right person, in the right context, with the right build-up and in response to the right thing. This will take quite a bit of time, like everything, but is a fun part... and hopefully... hopefully... the quotes and the moments they are unleashed will be stand-out moments in the book.

I'm trying to work backwards on them all, like sometimes creating a whole scenario or huge careful build-up for one quote... or sometimes covering two or three big quotes in a scene... but also always making sure that the scene is something which fits properly into the story.

Almost universally, just four people are responsible for the quotes...... the narrator (myself), the character based on Jim, the character based on Phil and the female character (which incidentally is now based on a myriad of people)

I have also now decided to put a love story into the second part of the book, so have been working at how I'm going to lay that out. The second part of the book will be shorter than the first part. I really like books with two distinct parts, but where the focus very much changes.. this doesn't mean by any means that the book turns into a love story, just that one is put in there, and the second part includes other things.

I really like books that are split into two parts where part one has lots of great stuff, and also you get to know all the characters... then with part 2, because all the characters are well known, things can now evolve in a different way...the two books that come to mind like this are To Kill A Mockingbird and The Fountainhead... anyway I want to try a similar thing.