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Feb. 25th, 2011 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliIt's amazing what trivial effects can produce great changes in a story.
Weaving through a story that is underweight for a novel, I introduce a breakfast scene where a woman drinks tea. Hmm. Tea. From overseas, no doubt. Which raises the question of where the port is -- and while the main characters can't leave the city for plotting reasons, there's no reason why the city can't be a port. It's a capital, but capitals have a tendency to be ports, actually. Or at least, it's not uncommon, since I haven't actually done a statistical analysis.
And once it's a port, I can easily send my characters wandering down there, especially since there's a magic afoot in the city that can dump them in locations they weren't intending while they are running away from something more unpleasant than being dumped in a random location.
With any luck, the novel grows heavier.
Weaving through a story that is underweight for a novel, I introduce a breakfast scene where a woman drinks tea. Hmm. Tea. From overseas, no doubt. Which raises the question of where the port is -- and while the main characters can't leave the city for plotting reasons, there's no reason why the city can't be a port. It's a capital, but capitals have a tendency to be ports, actually. Or at least, it's not uncommon, since I haven't actually done a statistical analysis.
And once it's a port, I can easily send my characters wandering down there, especially since there's a magic afoot in the city that can dump them in locations they weren't intending while they are running away from something more unpleasant than being dumped in a random location.
With any luck, the novel grows heavier.
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Date: 2011-02-25 09:22 pm (UTC)http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2011/02/25/practical-meerkat%E2%80%99s-52-bits-of-useful-info-for-young-and-old-writers-week-8/#comments
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