Introduction Ideas

Origionally when thinking of ideas for my introduction to this book, i thought about possibly giving the directions to the walking route or a perhaps a description of the town itself but only in a couple of sentences. But then I thought about how I wanted to keep this book visual not literal, so i started to think about soming up Chenies Bottom in a few short and sweet words to make a bigger impact.

Being that I want this book to be a visual metephor i want to leave as little literiture as possible out of this book. But how could I do this without giving away too much detail of the concept of this book? I struggled to think of the correct words that i could use to do this job, so seeing as my Dad came with me on this walk I asked for his opinions. We began to brainstorm ideas for words that could describe this walk and with a stroke of genius from my Dad he came out with one word....Checkmate.

The whole concept of this book is about the idea of a trapped or enclosed envionment and seeing as the river we walked along is called The River Chess, the use of the word checkmate played on the idea of metephorical enclosement of a game of chess which I think works brilliantly. So for my introduction page it will consist of a map of the walking route myself and my dad took with a title and subtitle;

The River Chess
Checkmate

I feel this is a clever way to tell the viewer of my book the secret meaning behind my concept but not in such a way that they will understand it striaght away.