Arrant Nonsense

Finish the first draft of the tattoo story. I'm at the climax right now.

See if I can re-work Hell's Process Server so the spec element is obvious from the first page.

Update my RP activity logs.

Tag this character.

Broken down like that, it doesn't seem like much. I can totally do it!

So. 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!"