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Today I woke up deciding to do writing after I checked tumblr
spent three hours on tumblr
read a short story
poked a couple of wikis
and... kind of made notes?
I've been stirring together characters from tv 'verses and setting from Pathfinder, and keep coming up interesting in the translations, and probably have stirred enough some of them are New now.

The problem with stories is there's always another story before it.
Like just deciding someone's mom was also a person and trying to give them a backstory kind of stretches the interesting bits back another generation?
But I neither want to gender swap his dad (evil) nor ignore his mom like canon did (nameless and absent from all parts of story, mentioned only in same breath as 'me and my').
So I sort of split his dad in two? And then poked a setting wiki to find out what they could do in Magnimar? And ended up finding local organised crime includes an all girl burglar gang which seems like fun.
And now I want to know what her life was like.
So she's not a line in his backstory anymore, success, but also, not the story I sat down to outline.

And I was going to actually write, not outline.

so that doesn't feel like a productive day.