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Feb. 21st, 2006 08:38 pm
ellarien: writing is ... (writing)
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Every time I think I've got the Behemoth thing nailed down enough to make a start, it hits me with another question.

At the moment I'm going with the idea that J is T's long-lost son. Once they're on the same ship, which happens fairly early on, maybe a quarter or a third of the way through the plot, they will find out, probably in the first couple of days. If the reunion was completely satisfactory, there wouldn't be a plot any more, or at least, those characters wouldn't be very interested in carrying on with it.

So, J has had a pretty strange upbringing, and isn't exactly the son T had been imagining all these years.

And all of a sudden, last night, J has acquired memories of a foster mother who used to work with T and despised him. What's more, I'm beginning to wonder if J needs to be a viewpoint character too, because some of those scenes will be really tricky to do offstage and by inference. It would be a familiar pattern for me -- the hero and heroine taking turns, with maybe a third character getting an occasional look-in -- but I always thought this was going to be a single-viewpoint story, and that's one thing I need to decide before I can even plan the thing properly.

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