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Working on a backstory for an e-mail RPG that I'm in, after not seriously trying to write anything for a good nine months. (This is partly due to said RPG being on an uneven schedule right now due to GM life circumstances, so my tri-weekly dose of fictionizing, normally enough to feed my habit, has been brutally reduced).
And it's being interesting. I know where it started, and I know how it has to end, but a big chunk of just-before-the-end refuses to settle into focus. The draft hasn't actually reached that point yet, mind, but I've been thinking about it, and gone through various potential iterations until I really have no idea exactly what's going to happen in there.
Part of it seems to depend on how wicked the villains really are. Actually they've been getting pretty darn wicked, as the secondary main character keeps developing in my head, but how overtly and publicly wicked are they willing to be?
What, now that I think of it, do the villains actually *want*? I started out with one idea about that, but I'm thinking now that I really need to elaborate on it, at least in my head. The problem is, the protagonist can't give them what the villains initially wanted ... so why exactly is he being dragged all the way there to begin with? Hmm.
And it's being interesting. I know where it started, and I know how it has to end, but a big chunk of just-before-the-end refuses to settle into focus. The draft hasn't actually reached that point yet, mind, but I've been thinking about it, and gone through various potential iterations until I really have no idea exactly what's going to happen in there.
Part of it seems to depend on how wicked the villains really are. Actually they've been getting pretty darn wicked, as the secondary main character keeps developing in my head, but how overtly and publicly wicked are they willing to be?
What, now that I think of it, do the villains actually *want*? I started out with one idea about that, but I'm thinking now that I really need to elaborate on it, at least in my head. The problem is, the protagonist can't give them what the villains initially wanted ... so why exactly is he being dragged all the way there to begin with? Hmm.