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- Thu, 12:13: Administrata taken care of. I can write 812 words today to hit my next goal. Right?
- Thu, 22:54: STORY ACCEPTANCE. http://t.co/hRZGpc0zkH
- Fri, 02:35: It occurs to me that I oughta have my dude's Guardian Angel also escorting him, to make sure the demons don't get up to UNFAIR shenanigans.
- Fri, 02:35: Which adds more wordcount. I'm not sure if that's good or bad at this point.
- Fri, 03:11: I love it when logic gets in the way of my outline. Really. #not But the goal for today is met, anyway. Tomorrow I'll work on bonus goals.
- Fri, 03:25: All right, I have cracked 2000 words in the New Story, which puts me 300 over where I need to be for today. Still on track. \o/
Jan. 17th, 2014
MAKE THE LOGIC STOP.
Jan. 17th, 2014 02:37 pmSo. I'm in the midst of scribbling the thing I'm calling "Hell's Process Server," and I have a very spiffy outline and it was going swimmingly...
Until my protag's Guardian Angel tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Hey. What about me. You really think I'm going to let my Charge go traipsing into the bowels of Hell itself without me. How about no." (No, those weren't questions. He was quite firm.)
So I've added a character who isn't in the outline. That's just great.
And then, for some reason, I couldn't seem to get going today, and it finally struck me:
If you're a demon escorting a mortal through Hell, are you going to walk him through the middle of the Torments of the Damned, or will you avoid all that stuff? Because, let's face it, if you're suddenly face-planted with Eternal Consequences for bad behavior, that's kind of a cue to straighten out your life. Right? And that's the last thing a demon would want.
This actually simplifies the story, because now I don't have to pick which Torments the demon escorts him past; we can just go Straight to Lucifer's Throne while Gaap and Khatuliel snark at each other and the GPS keeps yelling "Recalculating!"
Until my protag's Guardian Angel tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Hey. What about me. You really think I'm going to let my Charge go traipsing into the bowels of Hell itself without me. How about no." (No, those weren't questions. He was quite firm.)
So I've added a character who isn't in the outline. That's just great.
And then, for some reason, I couldn't seem to get going today, and it finally struck me:
If you're a demon escorting a mortal through Hell, are you going to walk him through the middle of the Torments of the Damned, or will you avoid all that stuff? Because, let's face it, if you're suddenly face-planted with Eternal Consequences for bad behavior, that's kind of a cue to straighten out your life. Right? And that's the last thing a demon would want.
This actually simplifies the story, because now I don't have to pick which Torments the demon escorts him past; we can just go Straight to Lucifer's Throne while Gaap and Khatuliel snark at each other and the GPS keeps yelling "Recalculating!"
