The Infamous Plot Point 15 - halfway.

Right, I've *finally* finished rewriting the first half of Plot Point Fifteen; Stefan and Raoul are both far less seriously injured by Erik than was previously implied (in particular, Raoul still has full use of his previously-wounded arm as and when it suits me), nobody fires a gun, I've gone back to the old plot where the two of them are in a Male Conspiracy to keep Christine out of danger instead of having her kept occupied by trying to resuscitate Stefan, and as a last-minute decision Erik *does* assault Raoul after all, but only very briefly, so I don't have to worry about keeping it quiet. ( Read more... )

At least I'm finally writing *new* material, which is an inexpressible relief. I can actually feel the ideas bubbling up and chaining on to the anticipated plot in advance, which is precisely how it's supposed to work, instead of desperately trying to hack out stale stuff.

The rewritten version is an improvement, though. It gets rid of the plot elements I was increasingly unhappy about and gets back to the originally intended feel of the scene -- there were a few character moments I'm a little sorry to lose, but they weren't worth the plot machinations required to lead to them.

(Plot Point Fifteen is practically worthy of a tag of its own by this point...)

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