warp and weft

[marycatelli]

It's not enough to devise a background for my two main characters to have their conflict against.

I have to weave them together. In particular the timelines. The endings work together nicely, since their final happy ending is when the political situation is settled, and they are rewarded.

But several incidents on the way are just them, and no politics. They still have work together, and not as if I had set them up.

grouse