Idiot Plot

[starshipcat]

I've been known to write annoying people into my sf and fantasy (the more clearly different from the Primary World, the better) and then redshirt them or otherwise bring them low. However, I can't do that with the mess I'm currently in because, written as fiction, it would look like an idiot plot

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[kalimac]

Shakespeare does that all the time. "Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous ... about a prophecy, which says that G of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be." And then there was the one about the handkerchief.

[starshipcat]

Interesting. But the master can succeed at the very things the journeyman is warned against.