(10-12-2016, 08:51 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: As I continue to work out the details of the Ministry Battle, I inevitably come up with new, cool things for Doug to do.
I then immediately figure out how to let a member of the DA do them instead.
And five and a half years later, I discover that someone -- Alistair Young, author of the Worm crossover Timeo Eldraeos et Dona Ferentes: Beware of Space Elves Bearing Gifts -- has named and quantified this principle by which I've designed so many plot turns and twists:
Quote:[T]he First Commandment of Interventions.
“Thou shalt not cockblock someone else’s torrid affair with awesomeness.”
(Found here.)
I'm going to have to add this to my writer's guide.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....