Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

The heroine has her magic.  She can use it for useful tricks, such as running errands without being pestered, because she can't be seen.

THEN it occurs to me that that particular trick would be of mind-boggling importance in the politics she's involved in.

Unless I curb it.

So out come the whip and the chair.  Back, ability, back!  Into your cage.  You are a fun trick and little more! 

A minor comment in the outline, how the heroine got the attention of the wizards.

But it wasn't detailed enough.

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While stymied on one work, I went to work on another. And realized I hadn't described the characters.

Lucky me. The opening scene is when the viewpoint character remembers her life in another world. Nothing is more natural than her looking at her own reflection and at the members of her family and trying to remember whether her family looked like that. Her real family. If it was real. . . .

At least the descriptions are in.

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.)