Personal NaNo Day 2
Feb. 2nd, 2011 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhondacrockett51 415 out of 100 000. Better than yesterday but nowhere near enough. Again, tiredness, a little bit of distraction from the TV (it's been football most of the night, but The Simpsons were on earlier), and just not feeling as 'into' it as I would like.
Part of the problem may be the ending that I have sketched out. I had this bright idea when I started January Blues that I wanted to take my heroes off the planet where most of the action is set and send them to the nation-state where they think the people responsible for the senator's murder are based, where I would show up Magda's simplistic assumptions about the religious-right dissenters, and undermine the readers' certainties that the senator's sexuality was the motive for murder. Specifically, I had this scene in my head where they talk with the senator's sister. ANYWAY, problem is that, with the way my plot has twisted, my heroes have been separated and the more experienced of the pair is not going anywhere (he's in jail, framed for murder). I've tried getting away with sending Magda out on her own, and I've crafted an... okay little series of adventures for her, but I just don't believe that even an agency as unconventional as Kalynder would send a complete rookie - alone, unsupervised and with minimum training - into what is assumed to be enemy territory, even if she does have potentially helpful connections to said assumed enemy. *sigh* So I'm going to have to work out another way to get the same information across without Magda leaving Tienba'i. A pity; I really liked the senator's sister, and the change of scene let me open up the story-universe a little bit, even in the first book, which was always going to be a one-planet affair (the second and third books were going to be more space-travel-based).
Part of the problem may be the ending that I have sketched out. I had this bright idea when I started January Blues that I wanted to take my heroes off the planet where most of the action is set and send them to the nation-state where they think the people responsible for the senator's murder are based, where I would show up Magda's simplistic assumptions about the religious-right dissenters, and undermine the readers' certainties that the senator's sexuality was the motive for murder. Specifically, I had this scene in my head where they talk with the senator's sister. ANYWAY, problem is that, with the way my plot has twisted, my heroes have been separated and the more experienced of the pair is not going anywhere (he's in jail, framed for murder). I've tried getting away with sending Magda out on her own, and I've crafted an... okay little series of adventures for her, but I just don't believe that even an agency as unconventional as Kalynder would send a complete rookie - alone, unsupervised and with minimum training - into what is assumed to be enemy territory, even if she does have potentially helpful connections to said assumed enemy. *sigh* So I'm going to have to work out another way to get the same information across without Magda leaving Tienba'i. A pity; I really liked the senator's sister, and the change of scene let me open up the story-universe a little bit, even in the first book, which was always going to be a one-planet affair (the second and third books were going to be more space-travel-based).
