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What In The Woods
Apr. 25th, 2025 03:25 pmThe heroine has gone into the woods. Several other scholars are with her.
I know that they will threatened by monsters of shadow. Probably lions. I know that her woodcraft will be vital -- you can tell you really reached the top of a hill when you see the sky ahead of you.
Nothing else is clear.
Furthermore, this will lead into an eruption, where the villain, having been foiled at every turn by our heroine, goes all out to make her play.
Nothing about that is clear, either.
sigh
I know that they will threatened by monsters of shadow. Probably lions. I know that her woodcraft will be vital -- you can tell you really reached the top of a hill when you see the sky ahead of you.
Nothing else is clear.
Furthermore, this will lead into an eruption, where the villain, having been foiled at every turn by our heroine, goes all out to make her play.
Nothing about that is clear, either.
sigh
oh villains come and villainize
Mar. 31st, 2025 11:36 pmAh, inspiration. I have the villains of the piece. Poisonous people, literally. Using a world as their chessboard, and abducting people from other worlds to push about it as their chesspieces, having murdered a lot of people to clear the way, and slandered the survivors.
Now, oh villains of the piece, come out on stage. Show our heroine what you can do. Give her a reason to run away from the people you are deceiving. Make her think on how she has to help protect some innocents. I know that she rejects you all in the end, but give her a reason before you tell her that you have to use this world to protect your own.
Now, oh villains of the piece, come out on stage. Show our heroine what you can do. Give her a reason to run away from the people you are deceiving. Make her think on how she has to help protect some innocents. I know that she rejects you all in the end, but give her a reason before you tell her that you have to use this world to protect your own.
the third time -- how charming
Sep. 12th, 2024 11:32 amThe time has come. For the third and final attempt of the sorceress to catch our fleeing prince and princess, and their companions. It is only right and proper for this to be the conclusion.
Only, in fairy tales, it's a lot easier to just have it change the third time, without setting it up or dramatizing it.
I think my hero's going to have to put some extra work into this one.
Only, in fairy tales, it's a lot easier to just have it change the third time, without setting it up or dramatizing it.
I think my hero's going to have to put some extra work into this one.
missing a scene
Aug. 20th, 2024 11:36 pmRevision was stymied, but finally, I figured out the issue: I need to throw in a scene. To make it very clear that two scenes didn't happen, bumpity-bump, in short order.
Which means it has to not just separate them but serve some purpose. Hmmm -- moving the queen and her consort about -- deal with soldiers -- oh, yeah --
Underscoring the problem that the second scene will fix. It's alluded to in the first scene, but it does fit in with the dealing with soldiers part.
wrangling skulls
Jul. 25th, 2024 12:02 amAh, the fun of being a writer. Figuring out where to put the skulls, and scratching the idea of following the fairy tale. If she, Baba Yaga like, put them on poles around her home, the hero and heroine would decide that collecting them would take too long. Decent burial for the dead had to take a second place to the escape of the living.
Whereupon I realized that the hero would have been grimly unsurprised to see them on the poles, but shocked to stumble on them out of place.
Whereupon I realized that the hero would have been grimly unsurprised to see them on the poles, but shocked to stumble on them out of place.
Choreographing magic
May. 4th, 2024 11:07 pmChoreographing the fight. . . always fun when you are dealing with magic. At least the two sides are, in fact, two people. At least at first.
But one can turn invisible and fly. The other has knowledge based powers that may nullify the first -- perhaps I need to define them more clearly.
The first one does have the advantage that he is there to rescue people with more magic. Which only complicates my task further.
But one can turn invisible and fly. The other has knowledge based powers that may nullify the first -- perhaps I need to define them more clearly.
The first one does have the advantage that he is there to rescue people with more magic. Which only complicates my task further.
the DM vs the writer: trope
Sep. 15th, 2023 11:43 pmThe isekai where the trope is the heroine is inserted into a romance game as the villainess, facing disasters and often death at every turn because of the game heroine's path, is very popular. It's even overshadowed the original isekai subgenre where the heroine is inserted into a light novel as the villainess.
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the crow and the castle
Sep. 7th, 2023 10:21 pmThe hero is in an enchanted castle, which will protect him.
Outside is an ill-minded crow witch, who will try to kill him.
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Outside is an ill-minded crow witch, who will try to kill him.
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timing is everything
Jul. 7th, 2023 10:54 pmWhen, oh when, do I have a villain strike? I ponder how I have been making time fly to give my hero time to finish growing up. I have to introduce his evil soon or it will look silly. . .
Aha! I can have him sulk in the forest, think about the need for secrecy, and then decide to lie low for a time. That will mean he doesn't jump out like a jack-in-a-box, and is showing his evil for a time.
Still going to introduce that attack soon. Hero's doing too well.
Aha! I can have him sulk in the forest, think about the need for secrecy, and then decide to lie low for a time. That will mean he doesn't jump out like a jack-in-a-box, and is showing his evil for a time.
Still going to introduce that attack soon. Hero's doing too well.
philosophy of flimsy
Apr. 11th, 2023 10:28 pmThere's an issue closely related to the problem of change in superhero stories, and that's of sturdiness of world-building -- or flimsiness. (Also a high fantasy problem.)
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