Chapter 8 progress

[ostarella]

I ran into a stumbling block with 8 - there was one small scene I wanted to include, just to anchor things with canon. I figured it was just a small thing, and even though I wanted it in there, it was bugging me as to how to do it. I couldn't figure out how the details from the scene in the show could fit, realistically, into this story. Nor how to "casually" bring it up. So, this morning, half-asleep, it came to me. Both solutions.

One - I took canon too literally.

Two - instead of making it an incidental - make it the culminating point of the chapter, *and* it figures heavily into the why's of the rest of the story.

I am Brilliant.

Okay, maybe just brighter than a burned out light bulb  ;-)

It was so neat, though - all I had to do was add two sentences to what I already had written and it changed the whole feeling of the chapter. That's what I love about writing - when suddenly, everything just...fits.

Now I just have to find time to get down and dirty with the details.

Comments

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like there's some kind of psychology at work there - women villains are so bad, because we put the "evilness" we'd like to do into them - and we're not *supposed* to have that evilness, so we have to make it *really* bad (slapping our own wrists). But we condescendingly accept that men are inherently flawed, therefore, it's okay for them to do bad things without being evil.

Man, I just don't understand women. LOL