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Armburster: Light Plotting

I don't want accidental or coerced badness. I want dead-on purposeful seeking your death or destruction badness.
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How to Kill a Honga Rider

None of the above is new. The 20 Plots exercise I did to follow this honga thing produced a couple appealing ideas for what do do with these characters. Of those I liked the rivalry version best. I'm not as familiar with rivalry as I am with jealousy, but I think I'll be able to work that out.
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Day 133: Three Plots for My Redemption

I am writing in the morning for the first time in several weeks. Even if the content sucks, I am already ten time happier about this that I was with last night’s efforts. I’ve discovered it’s hard for me to not write in the first person. This surprises me. I don’t read much [...]
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Day 110: The Texting of Arthur Brandt

I enjoyed this world builder’s perspective on survival in alternate universes: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/column/sfw17560.html Let’s give that plotting thing another chance… MC witnesses a murder. Rather than report the crime MC rationalizes nothing could have been done and that what’s done IS done. The ghost begins to haunt the MC through the written text of books, billboards, [...]
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Day 109: My First Three Plot Summaries

One of the joys of being me is that I have a terrible memory for reading. I know I’ve read something and I have no trouble locating a spot in a book without a bookmark, but I can’t always relate the details of a book as well as others. I enjoy rereading books. I [...]
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