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Emma Cox | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @983f49c9 im motivated. Too many people have said they want to read what happens next. I wish I knew what happens next. I’ve got character arcs sussed. Just not the plot.
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87e41a32 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c09f86d3 I'm no good at plots, but I have found that sometimes the development of the characters generates the plot. 

Who wanted our victims dead? Cui bono, as that old windbag Cicero used to say ...
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Emma Cox | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @983f49c9 it does, which is why I seem to be spending most of my time writing a sub-story that follows Edie and George’s backstory. How did a 15th century man end up stuck in the fairy realm? What was he getting up to before Edie met him in 1973? Who did she piss off when she freed him? And who else did they piss off over the next 35 years both human and fae?
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87e41a32 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c09f86d3 Quite a lot of people, I should imagine.  It probably wasn't a butler did it, though.
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Emma Cox | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @983f49c9 no butlers (yet) in the story. I think I’ve sussed out George. The fun part was writing the gruesome folktale which spurred Edie to look for him. When she finds him, he then rights the record and we find out what really happened.