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

There's one easy side to having the hero moving about the castle.  (Or house.  Or possibly edifice.)  

He's finding it all very odd.

This makes it very easy for him to notice all sorts of things in time for me to show them to the reader.

Better yet, it's time limited as he gets used to it, so I don't have to keep remembering how odd he finds it as the story winds on.

Was working on that recently.

Thing is, she's a magical knight.  She has unusually many magical abilities, and she has many magical objects to help her.  Her lair has walls of rocks, not dressed stone.  Also deep moats, and walls of fire.  (The last, for reasons, is the least  problem.)

Fortunately, fights in a novel don't go like fights in a RPG.  Or even a comic.  The technical details of a fight don't get the weight as the impact on the characters.  (There's only so much you can do to draw out even the longest fight on the page.)  And the evil knight can be quite melodramatic.

It's all very well to have different things in your world-building, even things that would be impossible in the real world. But think it through?
You want epic fantasy, with vast battles, in the modern world with cell phones, motorcycles, and laptops.
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Ripping off a story idea and hitting on an issue. It's a nominally feudal land. (Nominally because it's inconsistent.) And the knight has a castle and an estate, both distinctly grand. It's explicitly mentioned that he got them in the original story, but nothing more. Which is one of the flaws that inspired me to redo the idea.

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Skipping merrily along in a scene and going, err, ummm. . . .

Actually the protocol problems they face do not stem from the fantasy. The heroine is queen at the age of seven, and while there's magic involved in that, and it complicates her life in other ways, it doesn't really affect protocol.

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Was thinking about jails and prisons in worlds with superpowers.

Not those FOR people with superpowers.  Those for ordinary unpowered crooks.

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Superheroine wakes up the first morning in her new home, a location especially designed for the superpowered.

Author ponders how far to compress it.

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What could be simpler for NaNoWriMo that plopping down the rogue, the wizard, the cleric, and the fighter in front of an entrance to a dungeon and having them go at it?

The small issue is that you may have slightly overdone the exuberant badness of the notion.

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There's housekeeping magic in the castle, I just realized.

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One problem with non-Euclidean geography, or even non-Euclidean architecture, is that it imposes no natural constraints.  So it has be curbed by the logic of the story. . . .

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