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two years pass
Mar. 12th, 2025 10:15 pmWell, no, it's not quite that simple. Two years pass, their twins are born, the twins grow to a year old -- and then the story takes up again.
I think we're going to have a scene discussing names, and then the birth, and then perhaps some with the babies crawling -- and then the story will take up again.
I think we're going to have a scene discussing names, and then the birth, and then perhaps some with the babies crawling -- and then the story will take up again.
inheritance and other problems
Feb. 21st, 2025 11:53 pmWas trucking along on a story. Carefully setting up the laws and customs of the kingdoms to move the characters around.
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where to start
Jan. 19th, 2025 08:51 pmI outline the timeline of events affecting my heroine, and my hero. Then I gave it a gimlet gaze, trying to decide where to start.
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spells of a kingdom
Jan. 26th, 2024 11:44 pmIn this world, every kingdom has its borders and all within them bespelled. Does wonderful things for health, defense, life, etc.
I was pondering the mountainous regions where kings do not reign. I think, perhaps, that villages and even farms have smaller scale spells. This has consequences. For instance, the spells help protect against congenital health issues. Hence, there are rumors about children who are born with problems.
I was pondering the mountainous regions where kings do not reign. I think, perhaps, that villages and even farms have smaller scale spells. This has consequences. For instance, the spells help protect against congenital health issues. Hence, there are rumors about children who are born with problems.
kings and queens and magical knights
Jul. 1st, 2023 11:32 pmA royal character who does not become a wizard -- and the amount of study means that course is discouraged -- becomes a magical knight.
Does he, or even a noble character, get more say than others in the power set he will get?
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Does he, or even a noble character, get more say than others in the power set he will get?
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here comes the queen
May. 12th, 2023 11:50 pmAh, characters. There's one who's introduced to be cute and little and round out a happy ending to the first story. Being all wide-eyed with wonder at the notion of adoption.
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super sons and daughters
Apr. 12th, 2023 10:53 pmOne important -- and much neglected -- issue in world-building is the generation of the next generation. And in superhero stories, that has to mean whether powers are inheritable.
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Was once in a rip-roaring online discussion about whether superheroes should marry. After all, they risk their lives so often. Is it fair to marry with the awareness that you will quickly leave behind a widow? What if there are children? Should they be deprived of one parent? It's not actually like police, who would not be expect to be in a shootout every month.
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love and the objective correlative
Aug. 2nd, 2022 09:33 pmBeing noticing some patterns in fannish shipping of characters -- including of characters who are canonically married to someone else. And is in love. And may even have kids.
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what about the children
Jul. 15th, 2022 12:03 amThere'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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some do, some don't
Jun. 7th, 2022 10:48 pmThere are witches who turn women into sheep and have them killed so they can slip into their place in the family and be in a position to marry off their daughters to a prince. Or just jump at the chance to be a stepmother.
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Well, not too far into the story, she knows all about the death of her uncle. Something about reviving him from the dead does not leave her room for ignorance, especially since they talk along the way. (Along with the fox.)
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How can I tell people that the prince in this story is evil? Have him kill his father?
Have me racking my memory for a story where a prince, however evil, kills his father?
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Have me racking my memory for a story where a prince, however evil, kills his father?
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enter the mother-in-law
Nov. 14th, 2021 11:13 pmThe evil mother-in-law gets less press than the wicked stepmother, and indeed, she did appear less in the folk source.
But she was pretty frequent.
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But she was pretty frequent.
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