Plans

Snapshot of first retreat plan. Scoreboard Expand Last updated on June 4, 2022 at 8:19 pm Manuscript wordcount 12,699 Total hours worked 25.1 Total manuscript hours 7.1 Percent of target (out of 17,500 words minimum) 72.5% Morale A STORY ARC HAS BEEN BORN!!!!!! Wins Expand Snippets Expand tl;dr: Day job has been way too demanding […]

Razing Babel follows the Western three-act structure. In the Watchful City followed a more unconventional structure; I thought it would be interesting to study Western story structure as a discrete entity and write something based on it. Still, I’ll undoubtedly draw from 起承轉合 as well, especially for the internal motion within the western boundaries of […]

– demonstrating trust and reconciliation

The Big Screw is a turning point in which the story itself turns against the heroes. The heroes will be confronted with a situation in which something tries to go really wrong. Usually, it’s something they trusted or something they were counting on. A major NPC betrays them or leads them into a trap. The […]

The heroes have to face the major conflict.

Confrontation (Act II) The heroes do whatever the heroes do to prepare themselves to confront the major conflict. They grow, they change, they empower themselves, they have some successes and some failures, and gradually, as the stakes rise, their ability to confront the major conflict also grows.

– illustrate relationship between Iboshi and dom – power is entirely for her to control and to take – even if the D/s is negotiated thoroughly, that almost makes it all the more cruel that she can take power from people—she knows how dangerous it can be – Iboshi as sub and the dom as […]