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no plot yet emerges
Dec. 15th, 2023 09:32 pmI have been not actually finishing the last book in a series this week.
I think I stopped caring but I have like two thirds of a book to go so I dont quite quit.
I'll get there.
I also this week keep trying to think up A Plot for A Book. Or possibly an entire setting for a series.
Making it a super mega crossover just makes it so no one will want to read it and everyone is bent out of shape to fit, compared to canon, but I keep thinking if I stir enough I'll figure out something new to say with the pieces.
Mostly I have been making myself angry, going all No Wait Too Conspiracy Theory wrong parts, backing up and trying again, making myself angry in a slightly different way.
Because you need bad guys that are worth fighting, and reading some of this lazy fantasy 'there's an evil race outbreeding us' garbage makes me want to very not do that.
... I keep thinking I can almost do something with the different layers of attitudes to power built in to British politics, like the monarchy sitting on top of the Lords and the Commons, how would each era of Britain used magic and how would that carry through to the present day. But then I can find examples in other media so it's ending up
What if Hogwarts (but better) AND Watchers Academy from Buffy AND Casterbrook (?) from Rivers of London AND Torchwood doing the empire bit AND The Forge going full monster in the war AND SHIELD doing international cooperation for military intelligence AND UNIT trying to be United Nations but falling apart on local politics flag waving AND something about factory work sliding into the modern gig economy, except not even about profit, just the way like Amazon divides jobs up small to treat people like components. Like, all those are different relations of power and they highlight different things and they're all sorts of power that are still ongoing
but
put them all in one story
and
it is such a mess.
Such. A Mess.
The different sorts of magic schools I can do something with, possibly, but not all at once, they'd be like... parents went to different schools and now they have to choose a place for their kids to go but they've never fully grokked just how Different the approaches are.
And once I've got all these moving parts then inventing an extra additionao bad guy just seems like a lot of work.
So the story is all different ways these parts go horribly wrong.
if there's a story at all, it's a mess so far.
Focus. Need to focus.
But the mess is what the story clambers out of.
if it ever does.
So, not a wildly productive week, again.
Still, shall see.
I think I stopped caring but I have like two thirds of a book to go so I dont quite quit.
I'll get there.
I also this week keep trying to think up A Plot for A Book. Or possibly an entire setting for a series.
Making it a super mega crossover just makes it so no one will want to read it and everyone is bent out of shape to fit, compared to canon, but I keep thinking if I stir enough I'll figure out something new to say with the pieces.
Mostly I have been making myself angry, going all No Wait Too Conspiracy Theory wrong parts, backing up and trying again, making myself angry in a slightly different way.
Because you need bad guys that are worth fighting, and reading some of this lazy fantasy 'there's an evil race outbreeding us' garbage makes me want to very not do that.
... I keep thinking I can almost do something with the different layers of attitudes to power built in to British politics, like the monarchy sitting on top of the Lords and the Commons, how would each era of Britain used magic and how would that carry through to the present day. But then I can find examples in other media so it's ending up
What if Hogwarts (but better) AND Watchers Academy from Buffy AND Casterbrook (?) from Rivers of London AND Torchwood doing the empire bit AND The Forge going full monster in the war AND SHIELD doing international cooperation for military intelligence AND UNIT trying to be United Nations but falling apart on local politics flag waving AND something about factory work sliding into the modern gig economy, except not even about profit, just the way like Amazon divides jobs up small to treat people like components. Like, all those are different relations of power and they highlight different things and they're all sorts of power that are still ongoing
but
put them all in one story
and
it is such a mess.
Such. A Mess.
The different sorts of magic schools I can do something with, possibly, but not all at once, they'd be like... parents went to different schools and now they have to choose a place for their kids to go but they've never fully grokked just how Different the approaches are.
And once I've got all these moving parts then inventing an extra additionao bad guy just seems like a lot of work.
So the story is all different ways these parts go horribly wrong.
if there's a story at all, it's a mess so far.
Focus. Need to focus.
But the mess is what the story clambers out of.
if it ever does.
So, not a wildly productive week, again.
Still, shall see.