2/22/2015 8:00 - 9:00 PM

Missing out on 24 posts, that's a full 24 hours of writing not done. Gosh. That's... gosh. The fact that I'm not doing any actual draft writing, only writing essays about how magic works and character motivations and all that, had kind of jaded me to the project-- but this isn't my early starry-eyed idea that it would be best just to "pants" the story, now, is it, and so there are a lot of ground-level details that still need to be ironed out in, more or less, precisely the way I'd been doing it. I've been intermittent to the point of not posting at all, lately, but... Getting only one post a week in is better than getting in no posts at all, I figure...

Also, there's the reason of, well... after my last post, which I wrote a couple of weeks ago had it almost fully written but didn't put up till now-- you'd know why I've been hesitant to continue if you actually read that.

the TL;DR of 2/7/2015
Summarized, it is, basically, several times a week Finn is a victim of rape, with his visiting succubi and all that, and, he thinks that that's a normal human relationship, so basically he's messed up on some deep, deep levels... And of course I can write "messed up on deep deep levels;" I mean, they say write what you know and let's face it that's not much of a stretch, but.

This is a totally natural thing to him and so it just never gets brought up and so the universe is free to be all action-packed and rollicking; wham blam thank-you-ma'am and never stop to explain the depths of the "ma'am" part of the phrase. It's only the really cheeky fans who overanalyze everything and who love to pull the logic and tropes of a story apart (so, basically, the fans like me) it's only them who stop to realize the implications behind what goes on, who'd notice. It's only in between the lines, but it is there for them.

Moving on.

figuring out a way to plot the basic story
Have to start at the edges and work inward, in order to figure out what needs to go in and what we still need to figure out. Obviously we know the backstory behind Finn working for Tetragrammaton, know some basics about how he feels working for them but that he's still going. This first adventure we're going on with him, this introductory chapter into his life, we know it revolves around the fact that he's the mole without knowing it and we're keeping our fingers crossed that that's not too much of a copout. The supernatural dangers attracted to his aura, like bugs attracted to pretty lights, that's the greatest hook for us, for that's also the biggest obstacle to surmount in plotting...

The things that attack him, they defy being fit into so streamlined a storyline. They want to be, and need to be, external threats. That is how they work...

And yet, the way Finn works, he must slip around them and force them to be fit into the storyline. Uh, not in so many words, but, Finn has the way to make the problems external fit into becoming solutions internal, does he not? Alright, and no, not in so many ways with that, either. But-- this way, think of it this way (and you're probably very much ahead of me in knowing how to think of it; very well, but permit me to put it into words so that I may have a paradigm for knowing how to think of it.) After a terrible beastie bursteth out of nowhere, and Finn puts it down, we can't just ignore that it existed and never speak of it again. It is now for good or for ill part of the universe. For good or for ill, right- so it's either helping Finn get down out of the tree, or the fact that it existed is something that's throwing things at him.