Paksworld

Sometimes a vivid imagination leads you wrong.  Sometimes trying to fix the wrong leads to a different wrong, but not a fix.  Book III again, this time with Kieri and someone you haven’t met, Sgt. Vardan of Halveric Company.

The present instance of this is a battle.  It’s not a big battle (it’s big to those in it, of course) but it needs to serve several long-plot purposes as well as a short plot purpose or three, and like many military engagements “no plan survives contact with the enemy.”  In this case, the “civilian” plan of  serving the plot isn’t working.

I  don’t have a solution yet.   I now know why my first POV was doing what he did, but it’s still stupid and he can’t do that.   His purposes must be accomplished another way.   I know what my second POV thinks the first POV was doing, but that doesn’t work either.   I need to back way up.

Husband pointed out that if an army is starving and a horse dies, they’re going to eat the horse.   I was having enough trouble killing the horses, and now I’m supposed to let those guys eat them?   And how are you going to butcher a horse while being harrassed by skulking troops on two sides?   And besides that blows the justification for a beautiful ambush I had already written with this lovely scene where…

Rats.  Waaaaay back.  Change this, this, this, and that.  Grump.  But it might lead to something better…and fixing it now will be much better than trying to fix it (and everything that flows from it) later.