*bashes head on keyboard*

Why, yes, again.

I hammered out 1100 words yesterday and am probably going to cut a corresponding number from earlier which does nothing to advance the actual plot. I'm banging on 5,000 words right now, which was really the upper end of what I wanted to do with this. I do like what I wrote yesterday, as that did advance the plot--which is now galloping toward a conclusion.

However, I'm not sure this is the conclusion I should be aiming at.

Tim is all "Rawr, gonna kill 'im naow, kthx. Then perma-wolf, if I can manage that."

But a simple revenge story seems... cheap. Too simple. Dare I say... boring. Killing the alpha's mate, in order to take away from him the same thing he took away from Tim, is twistier, but still pretty damn standard. And I'm not sure Tim's the kind of guy who'd kill someone who was (relatively) innocent in order to exact vengeance.

Going to the police is problematic at best and would be a disaster at worst for a whole host of reasons. From the "I'm a werewolf" aspect to "I know where her body is even though it wasn't me who killed her, really, it wasn't." DNA in this case would be... I don't even know. As a wolf, he licked her face and her throat. If they found any of the bad guy's DNA, it would be a miracle.

So, he's isolated. No one in the pack has truly accepted him yet, and he's there on sufferance more than anything else. He can't tell anyone else without putting them in mortal danger from a guy who's already killed once.

Dammit. My plot has run into a brick wall that combines "sucky storytelling" with "practicalities."

And I really wanted to finish the first draft of this today.

*bashes head on keyboard*

Why, yes, again.

I hammered out 1100 words yesterday and am probably going to cut a corresponding number from earlier which does nothing to advance the actual plot. I'm banging on 5,000 words right now, which was really the upper end of what I wanted to do with this. I do like what I wrote yesterday, as that did advance the plot--which is now galloping toward a conclusion.

However, I'm not sure this is the conclusion I should be aiming at.

Tim is all "Rawr, gonna kill 'im naow, kthx. Then perma-wolf, if I can manage that."

But a simple revenge story seems... cheap. Too simple. Dare I say... boring. Killing the alpha's mate, in order to take away from him the same thing he took away from Tim, is twistier, but still pretty damn standard. And I'm not sure Tim's the kind of guy who'd kill someone who was (relatively) innocent in order to exact vengeance.

Going to the police is problematic at best and would be a disaster at worst for a whole host of reasons. From the "I'm a werewolf" aspect to "I know where her body is even though it wasn't me who killed her, really, it wasn't." DNA in this case would be... I don't even know. As a wolf, he licked her face and her throat. If they found any of the bad guy's DNA, it would be a miracle.

So, he's isolated. No one in the pack has truly accepted him yet, and he's there on sufferance more than anything else. He can't tell anyone else without putting them in mortal danger from a guy who's already killed once.

Dammit. My plot has run into a brick wall that combines "sucky storytelling" with "practicalities."

And I really wanted to finish the first draft of this today.