
Right now I have a lot of manuscript about aliens coming to earth and I started it way back when with my main character being in on the first "blip" on the screen of the alien craft. But more and more I'm realizing the story has always been about the interactions between them and humans - and their own internal interactions

But I don't mean to digress so much about my particular story as much as just get feedback from others as to how they've approached this issue and perhaps developed their writer's instinct so that it becomes easier over time to determine when a story should begin. Science fiction is sometimes about such macrocosmic things, yet the fiction uses the microcosm of the characters as they live out their lives within all that's going on around them to paint the big picture. Forest -> Trees -> back to Forest, as it were.
So please - jump in and give me all your wonderful wisdom on this! Thanks!
