Dude. I suck.

Writing accomplished today: None. Hell, I may be at negative words at this point.

My problem is that I really really really need to do some scenes here where Janni's looking for Ben. She needs to have her own try/fail cycle--and I need to figure out exactly how she finds him in time for Alex to pull the necessary strings to get him out.

Her mom is a private detective. I can probably handwave a lot of that, at least leading up to the point where she gets a solid lead.

However.

I've determined that she's going to have to get her hands dirty in order to find Ben. This is a given.

The question is...

Just how dirty should she get them? Should she have to kill someone? Maim them terribly? Maim them slightly? They say it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...

Or would she have to, possibly, sleep with someone? Which would be interesting, but I'm not sure I actually want to go there.

And then, of course, no way would she tell Ben what she had to do. He feels bad enough already, what with the whole "had sex with a vampire" thing. He'd feel awful if Janni (who has never killed anyone) had to do something terrible in order to save him.

But it would come out. Probably revealed by the Villain during the climax. Because I'm evil that way.

I just have to figure out what it is.

Dude. I suck.

Writing accomplished today: None. Hell, I may be at negative words at this point.

My problem is that I really really really need to do some scenes here where Janni's looking for Ben. She needs to have her own try/fail cycle--and I need to figure out exactly how she finds him in time for Alex to pull the necessary strings to get him out.

Her mom is a private detective. I can probably handwave a lot of that, at least leading up to the point where she gets a solid lead.

However.

I've determined that she's going to have to get her hands dirty in order to find Ben. This is a given.

The question is...

Just how dirty should she get them? Should she have to kill someone? Maim them terribly? Maim them slightly? They say it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...

Or would she have to, possibly, sleep with someone? Which would be interesting, but I'm not sure I actually want to go there.

And then, of course, no way would she tell Ben what she had to do. He feels bad enough already, what with the whole "had sex with a vampire" thing. He'd feel awful if Janni (who has never killed anyone) had to do something terrible in order to save him.

But it would come out. Probably revealed by the Villain during the climax. Because I'm evil that way.

I just have to figure out what it is.