The problem with discovery writing.

[witchofnovember]

I am a discovery writer. Not quite at the 'put characters on a rode and listen to them as the go down it' level but still pretty much a 'huh, I wonder what's going to happen next' writer.
Right now I'm at the point in one story where I need to reveal something and I have no idea, or too many ideas, what it is.
Basically the hero has been trying to

Comments

Easy.

[traveller_blues]

Kids on the witness protection program. No information exists because they are the kids of a mob lieutenant turned informant.

-Trav

Re: Easy.

[witchofnovember]

Thanks for replying. I've considered this but there are a coupld of problems...

They'd still have SSN's in witness protections, just new ones. There are canon related reasons they shouldn't have SSN's. Also when people in Witness protection travel, a Marshall goes with them.

[perkyandproud]

Do you know *why* the bad guys want to kidnap the kids? Ransom? Revenge? Materials for something? Leverage? To force a foreign power to release their comrades?

Once you know the motive, figuring out who the kids are would be a lot easier.

[witchofnovember]

Alas, no.

I guess I could put all those reasons on scraps of paper and draw one out of a hat. Hows that for discovery writing.

[elysianstarseed]

What kind of a story is it? I like odd things. I can get carried away with ideas.
-Sissy

[witchofnovember]

It's a Person of Interest fanfic, but I'm thinking about filing off the serial numbers in the second draft.