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Quantus:
in a modern fantasy setting, had a minor world detail about how the Spaniards kept the peace between mankind and the Spirits of Cattle through a mutual Sacrifice (they sacrificed their own in Bullfighting, we sacrificed ours in the Running of the Bulls).  Didnt even think it would ever appear in page.  Then I found out that in the Zoroastrian mythos the world is built on, the mutual deaths of the First Man and the First Bull were what planted the seeds for all animal life in the land, making it a much deeper and thematically resonant element.  Love it when thing fall into place.  :)

Aminar:
I discovered that Social Workers make great Urban fantasy protagonists.  Their job implies a level of self-sacrifice.  They're expected to be a little embittered and to know the cities criminal portions.  At the same time they aren't cops.  they can play looser with the rules(a little, not much, and they can be scared so much easier.

meg_evonne:
a mind freezing panic attack for the MC. Followed by brilliance!

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I'm having a kind of rotten day at the moment, so I worked some of the frustration out by thrashing out the plot of volume 4 in somewhat more detail. (This is the thing of which i am currently working on volume 3.)  Along the way I figured out a few useful things about where the thread about the singer fits in and at which point moderate-separatist-political-opponent parts ways with extreme-separatist-political-opponent-who-condones-violence and instead joins forces with strange-charismatic-religious-leader.

The Deposed King:
I had one.  I was sitting at a Weird Al concert grooving on the music and mulling over my Gunner character and wondering what he was going to do in this certain situation.  I realized my original idea wasn't going to work.  So I was grinding and grinding on it in my head.  When I remembered I'd added a new character a giant native to his gunnery crew and said native wasn't going to take this situation lying down.

Next thing I knew, instead of trying to figure out how the gunner was logically not going to wind up dead, I was envisioning the Last Charge of the Grease Monkeys and trying to figure out how the Chief Gunner and his Native sidekick were going to run out of steam before they hijacked my plot!

Eureka!  Oh crud!!!!



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