We leave it to the viewer to realize that this is not home. Toward the end the text just says, “They landed in some soft dirt.” A lot of the objects look the same, but there are small differences and we don't say it in the text. Would you say this story is left open-ended? Mac always has an ending in mind, but we were trying to figure out how to make it clear and direct and also as dreamy as we wanted. In this book, it was especially tricky because we had dug the hole and we couldn't get out! So we're at the bottom of the page and now what? Of course it wasn’t written as haphazardly as that. You're just following what it is that got you excited about it in the first place. There are things that feel right for the premise and things that feel like you might be taking it in the wrong direction. That was a big part of writing and illustrating it. What drives a large part of the story is how is it going to end, how is it going to solve itself. It's an interesting point in the story structure. Yes, a lot of the stories I come up with do involve a search, until I reach a point where I wonder how am I going to solve this. That so perfectly describes Sam & Dave Dig a Hole. You've said that you keep coming back to the idea of a search for something, where you end up hitting rock-bottom.
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