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marycatelli) wrote2023-04-24 11:48 pm
marycatelli) wrote2023-04-24 11:48 pm
bright ideas
So there are two scenes.
One where the heroine is exiled because of -- not quite false accusations, the villainess would not be so blunt, for fear she could be refuted. One where the villainess does not help because of the danger, the heroine does, and the villainess is, as a consequence, captured by another villain and worms her way into his confidence because going back would be so ugly.
Then I hit the point in the outline and realized that these two are incompatible. The villainess doesn't have time to exile the heroine between the decision and the consequence.
Hmmm. . . perhaps they exile the heroine because the villainess, who is of royal blood, didn't come back and suspicion falls on her. Some of them might tell themselves it's to protect her; some of them might really think it's to protect her. . . hmm. . . .
OTOH, the villain has a magical power that would certainly let him influence them. The villainess would be delighted to exile her, in revenge for how her failure led to her capture while the heroine got away -- that was the notion in the first scene -- though she would have to manage to weasel her way in quickly, and also it would escalate his use of powers early in the story. She would. . . hmm. . . have to allude to the strangeness of the heroine's magical powers.
One where the heroine is exiled because of -- not quite false accusations, the villainess would not be so blunt, for fear she could be refuted. One where the villainess does not help because of the danger, the heroine does, and the villainess is, as a consequence, captured by another villain and worms her way into his confidence because going back would be so ugly.
Then I hit the point in the outline and realized that these two are incompatible. The villainess doesn't have time to exile the heroine between the decision and the consequence.
Hmmm. . . perhaps they exile the heroine because the villainess, who is of royal blood, didn't come back and suspicion falls on her. Some of them might tell themselves it's to protect her; some of them might really think it's to protect her. . . hmm. . . .
OTOH, the villain has a magical power that would certainly let him influence them. The villainess would be delighted to exile her, in revenge for how her failure led to her capture while the heroine got away -- that was the notion in the first scene -- though she would have to manage to weasel her way in quickly, and also it would escalate his use of powers early in the story. She would. . . hmm. . . have to allude to the strangeness of the heroine's magical powers.