I has a plot!!

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I must also get myself out of lolcat-speak before I start writing properly. It is not conducive to a good word count, nor are any of my characters likely to use it on a regular basis.

You remember the part I was having the most problems with was my prophecy? Something I knew had to be there to give a good reason for Sabrina to be exchanged and grow up in Faerie, I just couldn't quite work out what it was. Then I had a random flash of inspiration, I have a set of Brian Froud & Jessica Macbeth's 'Faeries Oracle Deck' if I can't get one lot of faeries to talk to me, try another. It worked as well. Someday I may even remember how useful tarot decks and the like are for inspiration before I drive myself quite so insane.

So anyway, plot stuff:

Sabrina's parents are both decended from old bloodlines with intimate connections to magic, their stories have been lost along the way or turned into simple bed time tales for the children. Either way the two adults are both very much products of the modern world. Sabrina's birth produced an heir to these bloodlines, one with the potential to wield much power and one prophesied to cause untold levels of destruction on a magical level. While the mundane world might note her passing as nothing unusual, the lands of Faerie might face natural disasters even beyond those in the mortal world of late.

As an effort to avert this fate a particular pair of fae offered to take the human child as their own and bring her up with proper respect and understanding of magic and the unseen. A little knowledge may be dangerous but a lot of ignorance is infinitly more so. To keep the balance between the worlds, and because they knew that one day Sabrina must return to the mortal world, the fae couple sent their own child to take Sabrina's place.

When the two girls come of age, Sabrina must be returned to her own world. Attempting to avert fate by actions and proper knowledge is one thing but to utterly remove someone's freedom is a far worse thing to the fae. When Sabrina becomes an adult she must be free to make her own choices with full understanding of what she may face. It is also time for the Changeling child to return to her own lands.

At the moment I see the story opening in one of two ways, with Sabrina's first entrance back into the human world or with a bit of a prologue showing the night of the original switch. I've still left myself with a lot of questions to answer but at least now I have somewhere to start from. I've got a nice list of notes on my laptop but, wouldn't you know it, I forgot to bring the flash drive with me when I got anywhere near a computer with net access. I'll try and get all the background stuff up in the next couple of days though. One thing I have discovered by using my Oracle deck, the Green Woman (my sig card from the deck) has decided that she wants at least a cameo role...have you ever tried saying no to a faerie?!

*Pixie dust*

Comments

[delphinbella.livejournal.com]

If I'm allowed to I vote for the prologue to start things off. You can always remove it later if it doesn't work. And I just like prologues.

And Yay for inspiration!

[fae-witch.livejournal.com]

Prologues are good. At the moment I seem to have a lot of faerie related plot going on in my head so I need something to set the scene. I get the feeling that the plot isn't going to end up going quite the way I expected it to when I first came up with the idea.