Writing (with bonus abuse of conjunctions), text dump

So, I'm batting around the teeniest-tiniest speck of plot. And the big question I'm dealing with right now (other than is this more than a speck, will this become a real story?) is that the protag is a nasty individual. Super-duper nasty, and I'm unsure if nasty can be tolerated for a plotty story.

The nasty doesn't really aid the plot, it's just Kinky Goodness For Opera's Sake. I have no desire to reform the character or lessen the nasty, and I worry that Nasty suddenly taking time-off from nasty-doing in order to solve a mystery might seem a little OOC.

After thinking on that, I considered using one of Nasty's victims as the protag. Makes for interesting complications or, at least, sympathetic ones, to have victim dealing with Nasty and The Mystery.

But, Victim doesn't have a whole lot of power to act. I tried writing that idea before with The King. It was a big fat failure turtle. And, now I'm super navel-gazey about why I'm drawn to suppressed characters.

Maybe futility does it for me? It's funny/depressing to consider that one of my favorite story dealies is Character Who Tries Hard Yet Fails, and fanfic is full of Character Who Does Nothing And Gets Rescued.


I'm happy to be thinking plot again.




Now for stuff totally unrelated to writing.

Ballerina porn on kink.com. Thanks Kink Fairy!

Moe and I were watching The Biggest Loser, and they were showing a contestant's new skinny-happy life. She was crowing about her SIZE 12 WEDDING GOWN OMG. And, I was all "BAHahahahahahaha", and Moe wanted to know what cracked me up.

Me: That's what size we say Stephanie McMahon wears. BAHahahahahahhaha.
Moe: I don't get it.

As in together-together

Those are your brooding and pensive shoulders.