I love my Writing Buddy...

Okay, seriously, I thought this story was irrevocably snapped, kaput, breaky-smashed. Lame villain, lame ending, no one got a Crowning Moment of Awesome in this, not even Ben, who usually gets his share.

But my Writing Buddy is like a script doctor, man. He hasn't even read the whole thing, and he figured out what was wrong with it. See, the supernatural set, in this 'verse, has its own way of "taking care of problems" without getting the authorities involved. And my villain needs killing, but for some reason, I was balking at having Ben do it. But. If I turn the villain human...

Ben can't go vigilante on his sorry ass. He can't just rip out his throat and ask questions later. And then there's the whole "chain of evidence" thing that he'll need in order to bring the guy to human justice. Because if he screws it up, the guy walks.

Now, this is going to require an extensive re-write. Motivations are going to have to change, and the Big Reveal is going to (probably) have to be very, very different. And I may have to do without a side character I actually got pretty fond of, but we'll see.

I realized on my way home from our meeting that "solving" this problem involves a whole lot more than just "making the guy human." But, while writing this post, I had a very interesting thought about who he is and what he does and why chickie-poo wants to stay with him and how the girl that Ben is brooding about in the opening scene actually dies.

So. We'll see how this shakes out. I've begun a new doc, and I will work on this on the morrow.

I love my Writing Buddy...

Okay, seriously, I thought this story was irrevocably snapped, kaput, breaky-smashed. Lame villain, lame ending, no one got a Crowning Moment of Awesome in this, not even Ben, who usually gets his share.

But my Writing Buddy is like a script doctor, man. He hasn't even read the whole thing, and he figured out what was wrong with it. See, the supernatural set, in this 'verse, has its own way of "taking care of problems" without getting the authorities involved. And my villain needs killing, but for some reason, I was balking at having Ben do it. But. If I turn the villain human...

Ben can't go vigilante on his sorry ass. He can't just rip out his throat and ask questions later. And then there's the whole "chain of evidence" thing that he'll need in order to bring the guy to human justice. Because if he screws it up, the guy walks.

Now, this is going to require an extensive re-write. Motivations are going to have to change, and the Big Reveal is going to (probably) have to be very, very different. And I may have to do without a side character I actually got pretty fond of, but we'll see.

I realized on my way home from our meeting that "solving" this problem involves a whole lot more than just "making the guy human." But, while writing this post, I had a very interesting thought about who he is and what he does and why chickie-poo wants to stay with him and how the girl that Ben is brooding about in the opening scene actually dies.

So. We'll see how this shakes out. I've begun a new doc, and I will work on this on the morrow.