I have often said that I hate my brain.
May. 12th, 2009 10:51 amBut, this morning? I'm going to have to take that back.
I started writing this scene yesterday. It was supposed to be a kind of throwaway bar fight, Ben's had a bad day and this is why he's having (yet another) nightmare.
BUT THEN.
I realized, late in the day, that this scene sets up the pivotal one where he ends up back on the table for good. Rather than "random vampire is pissed at him in general because he's a werewolf, and taunting the werewolf is fun when he can't fight back," now it's "this gorram dog did fight back and nothing bad happened to him, so vengeance is mine."
NOT ONLY THAT.
But in the scene where Ben does the thing that puts him back on the table, he very coldly snaps the silver lock (burning his hand, not that he cares) and then takes the collar off. This is because, if he Changes with it on, it will choke him. But I didn't get to mention that in this scene. HOWEVER. In the bar fight, I can mention that Ben doesn't Change because if he does, the collar will choke him. Also, wolf shoulders aren't built for wolf forelegs to be fastened behind a wolf back. I would think that some sort of painful dislocation at the least, if not actual breakage, might occur, if he tried to Change with his wrists fastened behind him with the cuffs.
So. Not only is this scene integral to my Plot, but it also sets up actual information for later.
Good Brain. Have a cookie.
I started writing this scene yesterday. It was supposed to be a kind of throwaway bar fight, Ben's had a bad day and this is why he's having (yet another) nightmare.
BUT THEN.
I realized, late in the day, that this scene sets up the pivotal one where he ends up back on the table for good. Rather than "random vampire is pissed at him in general because he's a werewolf, and taunting the werewolf is fun when he can't fight back," now it's "this gorram dog did fight back and nothing bad happened to him, so vengeance is mine."
NOT ONLY THAT.
But in the scene where Ben does the thing that puts him back on the table, he very coldly snaps the silver lock (burning his hand, not that he cares) and then takes the collar off. This is because, if he Changes with it on, it will choke him. But I didn't get to mention that in this scene. HOWEVER. In the bar fight, I can mention that Ben doesn't Change because if he does, the collar will choke him. Also, wolf shoulders aren't built for wolf forelegs to be fastened behind a wolf back. I would think that some sort of painful dislocation at the least, if not actual breakage, might occur, if he tried to Change with his wrists fastened behind him with the cuffs.
So. Not only is this scene integral to my Plot, but it also sets up actual information for later.
Good Brain. Have a cookie.