Still stuck. Send more booze, please.

[agilebrit]

Seriously, there's a reason writers drink.

My villain still sucks. "He's just an asshole, okay?" is not enough motivation for a fictional villain. I'm sorry, I know it works in real life, but fiction has to be both better and worse than real life. At least I got my 250 words yesterday, but that's all I got.

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

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[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Sending virtual bottle of Jack Daniels.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

If I get the characters moving, that should get the plot moving again. Just need to move Ben and chickie-poo, and intercept them with the villain. Or something.

This is what I get for not outlining.

But some people are just born arseholes, surely?

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

You probably could make him amoral, along the lines of, well, it's not that he's bad you see, it's just that society has all these freaking rules and it's not that he doesn't get it, it's that they don't apply to him.

Re: But some people are just born arseholes, surely?

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

...And a vampire's gotta eat, right? Those pesky rules are for mortals. Besides, the girl was asking for it.

Yeah, that won't get Ben revved up at ALL. *evil laughter* And I can see his boss trying to help him hold it together afterward, when he's had to kill again: "Baby boy, some folks is just plain evil. They's a stain on the world, and you just did everyone a huge honkin' favor by bleachin' that one out. Now go for a run under that moon like I know you're itchin' to."

That could work.

I hope it does work for you!

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Because with that sort of attitude re: your villain, you can make him a scene chewer all you want. He can go OTT as much or as little as you need him to, but you'd have the option of making him be menacing because he just plain doesn't give a hoot.

Re: I hope it does work for you!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

...and, you know, I just had a thought, re: the villain. He's claimed, to chicky-poo, that he's over 200 years old, and from Serbia. But what if he's only been a vampire for six months, and he's from Buttcrack, Nebraska? BUT HE'S A VAMPIRE NOW, BY GOLLY, and pretty full of himself and his newfound power. So, he's lying to her on several levels (because he also has no intention of turning her like he's "promised").

Thank you. These posts are more than me just angsting about my writing failures, they're me getting my head around the plot and getting the gears turning so I can figure stuff out.

He could probably do a dodgy Eastern European accent

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

But it keeps dropping, see, and he's really trying to play it off, but his natural accent comes out, oh noes. /o\. So he has to kill her see, lest she finds his secret out, because she's crossed him... or whatever. He's a villain, he's above the rules... and grrreat. Or something.

Re: He could probably do a dodgy Eastern European accent

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

LOL, he's already told her that he's been in America for "a really long time" to explain his lack of accent.

I haven't actually decided if chicky-poo is going to die yet, or how this guy bites it.