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Twenty-eight Scenes
I think this needs more work along the lines of yesterday’s exercise, but I’ll table that for today’s different exercise. Not before saying that I’d still like to clean up all the character references via pronoun and I think it’s important I find a smooth way to do more than imply Malachi is a mage. I’m not even certain I’ve implied that here.
I can pretend that I have stated his mage-itity. And will. My next step is to get some scenes from the above. I’m tackling this like my one-minute drill: no time; no filter.
I’ll not stretch that exercise too much further. I think I had a couple repeats in there and a few that aren’t scenes as much as they are situations.
Part of my trouble is that I never meant for this to be a prison break situation and now it is. I like that. I’m just not certain how to write it up with much credibility. I need to do research or find a plausible way to truncate the prison portion of the plot.
I’ve got time left on my so-called hour to flirt with number four.
At the start of yesterday this element wasn’t an element. Now it’s crucial. At that time I’d just considered her need for magic in the sense that she needs the existence of magic to be alive–like air. While that gives the story a mysterious larger world quality her mana-like dependence on magic doesn’t lend much immediacy to the story. However, I’d rather not have her injured and laid up in bed–at least not at first. If I put her in a bed then I need to create a intermediary to inform Malachi and that kneecaps the potance of the relationship. Maybe she has a magic injury he can sense.