Out of Bag Error?
Feb. 16th, 2011 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caper_estKiller-Kate and Luke Lackland: 1,120 words. Lord Evil sets out a brilliantly poisonous and wrong theory of what's really going on that's almost convincing, and almost totally pulled out of his/my ear. A Four Agenda Pile-Up occurs. Elegant Elder Sister has a chance to get out of the woods - but she knows she mustn't take it. So she puts the ball back in play again, and now it is all very nervous, and Relatively Okay Genius on the other team is making the running.
There are two ways the next bit can go; and one is pear-shaped, and the other is mushroom-shaped and blindingly luminous. If I let that one happen - the stakes go soaring up yet again, and the timing yanks violently tight. Good enough, but it's really going to mess with one of the big climactic confrontations if the Kate gets out of the bag so soon. I think I'd better sit down and imagine this whole plot-arc properly two ways, with Early Reveal and Late Reveal, and see if they both still make sense.
But not tonight. Sleep now, yes.
Update Feb 17th: The management would like to apologize for an object pulled out of an ear causing a pile-up, which puts somebody into the woods, out of which the ball is put back in play again so that somebody can make the running with it. It was, indeed, very late. The Metaphor Police did duly kick my door in at half-past four this morning.
There are two ways the next bit can go; and one is pear-shaped, and the other is mushroom-shaped and blindingly luminous. If I let that one happen - the stakes go soaring up yet again, and the timing yanks violently tight. Good enough, but it's really going to mess with one of the big climactic confrontations if the Kate gets out of the bag so soon. I think I'd better sit down and imagine this whole plot-arc properly two ways, with Early Reveal and Late Reveal, and see if they both still make sense.
But not tonight. Sleep now, yes.
Update Feb 17th: The management would like to apologize for an object pulled out of an ear causing a pile-up, which puts somebody into the woods, out of which the ball is put back in play again so that somebody can make the running with it. It was, indeed, very late. The Metaphor Police did duly kick my door in at half-past four this morning.
