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juggling death
Trying to wrassle two stories in outline form at once. At least as much as the plot bunnies will allow
One has revealed that the heroine's heroic efforts to save lives will produce a backlash. People will have to die. Fortunately, it will be logical that these are people who cause trouble in another plotline.
The other one has revealed that the heroine will have to hear some backstory from the not-quite-love-interest-yet about how the number of wizards is so few, and he's the only adult in their number.
Sometimes plot bunnies multiply in odd ways.
One has revealed that the heroine's heroic efforts to save lives will produce a backlash. People will have to die. Fortunately, it will be logical that these are people who cause trouble in another plotline.
The other one has revealed that the heroine will have to hear some backstory from the not-quite-love-interest-yet about how the number of wizards is so few, and he's the only adult in their number.
Sometimes plot bunnies multiply in odd ways.
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juggling two stories
Oh you plot bunnies!
Two very different stories about a character who finds herself in another world. The means by which they are moved differ, the situations they find themselves in differ, their powersets differ, and the reasons they have powers differ. Their enemies differ, and so does the conflict.
This probably means they should have different reactions to arrival, perhaps all the more in that they do not glide over it as a machine that the readers will simply accept as not relevant to the plot. (It is relevant in both cases, though -- the reasons differ.)
Both are going to have metaphysical questions, though. No matter how different I make them.
(And I don't even know if either one is a full story yet.)
Two very different stories about a character who finds herself in another world. The means by which they are moved differ, the situations they find themselves in differ, their powersets differ, and the reasons they have powers differ. Their enemies differ, and so does the conflict.
This probably means they should have different reactions to arrival, perhaps all the more in that they do not glide over it as a machine that the readers will simply accept as not relevant to the plot. (It is relevant in both cases, though -- the reasons differ.)
Both are going to have metaphysical questions, though. No matter how different I make them.
(And I don't even know if either one is a full story yet.)
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ah, the scene
I write in the outline that the hero fights an evil knight here, rescuing a prisoner.
I note that ravens are involved.
But I need to elaborate it into an actual scene.
Ah, the discovery you make about the adequacy of outlines.
I note that ravens are involved.
But I need to elaborate it into an actual scene.
Ah, the discovery you make about the adequacy of outlines.
the plot clumpens
As the meme goes:
Well, this story is clumpening. The outline hit the high points, which is good to ensure that it doesn't die on me half way -- BUT --
It's moving very sluggishly between the high points. At least the stuff is moving. Even if I do have to go back and put in things. Lots of things.
Well, this story is clumpening. The outline hit the high points, which is good to ensure that it doesn't die on me half way -- BUT --
It's moving very sluggishly between the high points. At least the stuff is moving. Even if I do have to go back and put in things. Lots of things.
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ah notes
Was returning to an outline.
I remember that I decided two characters meeting had to happen later. Now I am wrestling with how she was important in how he managed to persuade two others of his harmlessness.
I think they may have to have met earlier.
I remember that I decided two characters meeting had to happen later. Now I am wrestling with how she was important in how he managed to persuade two others of his harmlessness.
I think they may have to have met earlier.
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does he belong?
There's a thread in this story, that might not belong. A mercenary man, who's a magical knight, and a little girl he rescued.
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outlining out of order
One advantage of a plot structure -- Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, Lester Dent's, what have you -- is that it gives you a place to put story ideas in order when the story is incomplete.
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checking off the outline
So the big dramatic battle's coming up and about to spin off our hero into a setting where he can do things and expect consequences more than "perhaps survive."
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out of order
Some people can write scenes out of order.
I do that, and I generally manage to miss the scene when plodding on toward the ending. So I write in order.
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I do that, and I generally manage to miss the scene when plodding on toward the ending. So I write in order.
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notes, notes everywhere, and not a plot to work
Keeping a collection of random notes on a story is wise. Something that may work out brilliantly may yet have no place in an outline because it's not situated in time, and you don't want to lose it.
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for once, fighting
Outlining along, told myself that it was a big fight this time and it's not enough to leave the hero and the villainess's powers vague. I have to establish them.
Turns out I have to do the moves in the fight, too. Partly because there are other characters that he has to maneuver about; if he didn't care about them, he could just turn tail and run, or else blast everything sight to try to kill her, except in their absence I don't think he would want to kill.
Good thing for him that she wants him prisoner, not dead.
Turns out I have to do the moves in the fight, too. Partly because there are other characters that he has to maneuver about; if he didn't care about them, he could just turn tail and run, or else blast everything sight to try to kill her, except in their absence I don't think he would want to kill.
Good thing for him that she wants him prisoner, not dead.
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what about the children
There's a point in the plot in which the character has charge of some children. For a long time, and sole charge.
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the sequel
Finished outlining my sequel to my Sleeping Beauty story -- set the century later, when she wakes up.
It's about the prince who is her cousin's great-grandson, not the one who wakes her up. Though it does affect him.
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It's about the prince who is her cousin's great-grandson, not the one who wakes her up. Though it does affect him.
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