Chapter Outline: Prison or a Promise
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future_guardianI'm in a semi-snarky mood right now, although I am dead serious about this concept. Just advanced warning.
Okay, so something interesting happened one night when I was asleep. Yes, it's a dream, and I know it was a dream because in this dream I was a singer (ha!) and I had a band (ha!) and we were successful (ha!) and I ended up richer than rich (the lols are killing me, seriously). Anyway, in this dream me and the band were kicking over the last song for our CD and we decided on this one song, untitled at the moment. So then I said, "It's about me and this guy. I hate him, like so much I quite literally puke every time I see him. Well, he didn't get the memo because he asked me to marry him." Then one of the girls in the band said, "So maybe you should call it something like I Hate You So Much I Puke." Then I said, "Yeah, no." Finally we reworked the song and called it Prison or a Promise, because that related way too perfectly to the wedding aspect. Dream over after that point (although later I have continuing segments, so...interesting, definitely).
So, Jess, what's that have to do with writing? Well, I love the title Prison or a Promise but it's obviously not going to be a song (I am painfully bad at singing, so there's that little issue). Then I thought, hey, what if I used it as a chapter title? And then I thought a lot more about it and thought, I know exactly how it fits in. And now for the outline so I don't forget.
This is the third novel in my Slayer trilogy, so Callix Ruelo is a grown woman (anywhere from twenty five to thirty) and the only ranked female slayer (but she's dedicated to helping teenage girls develop their slaying so she's not so alone in that world). The important thing that happens in this third novel is two men (of sorts, and I'll mention why later...for now, keep in mind that they are men in age only) propose to Callix (who is of course a slayer and would slay them if she could). The thing is, one man (Toriaun, who is the man in age only; he's immature, can't make decisions for himself worth anything, relies on his mother to defend him, and so on) she absolutely, one million percent loathes. At one point she thought maybe they'd have a future if he stopped keeping demons for torture purposes (having been tortured by her father from age 0 to 10, she knows it's not fun) and he's her age (okay, two years older, but close enough) and there are so many reasons she could use him (he's rich, he has influence, he's powerful, and so on). However, being around him even in the name of business (she slays his problem demons, essentially) makes her want to puke (see a pattern here?). Therefore, his marriage proposal (the promise), while solid, could trap her in something she doesn't want (the prison). See how awkwardly I tied that in? Well, the plan is to make it flow more smoothly when I write it.
By the way, the other man is Marius So-and-So (that is not actually his last name, I just don't have one for him right now) and he's a special problem of his own. He's a serial killer, he makes sacrifices that hurt everyone around him including himself and he never realizes it, and basically he's like Callix's father. On the count of three, let's all say "Ewwwww!"
Okay, so something interesting happened one night when I was asleep. Yes, it's a dream, and I know it was a dream because in this dream I was a singer (ha!) and I had a band (ha!) and we were successful (ha!) and I ended up richer than rich (the lols are killing me, seriously). Anyway, in this dream me and the band were kicking over the last song for our CD and we decided on this one song, untitled at the moment. So then I said, "It's about me and this guy. I hate him, like so much I quite literally puke every time I see him. Well, he didn't get the memo because he asked me to marry him." Then one of the girls in the band said, "So maybe you should call it something like I Hate You So Much I Puke." Then I said, "Yeah, no." Finally we reworked the song and called it Prison or a Promise, because that related way too perfectly to the wedding aspect. Dream over after that point (although later I have continuing segments, so...interesting, definitely).
So, Jess, what's that have to do with writing? Well, I love the title Prison or a Promise but it's obviously not going to be a song (I am painfully bad at singing, so there's that little issue). Then I thought, hey, what if I used it as a chapter title? And then I thought a lot more about it and thought, I know exactly how it fits in. And now for the outline so I don't forget.
This is the third novel in my Slayer trilogy, so Callix Ruelo is a grown woman (anywhere from twenty five to thirty) and the only ranked female slayer (but she's dedicated to helping teenage girls develop their slaying so she's not so alone in that world). The important thing that happens in this third novel is two men (of sorts, and I'll mention why later...for now, keep in mind that they are men in age only) propose to Callix (who is of course a slayer and would slay them if she could). The thing is, one man (Toriaun, who is the man in age only; he's immature, can't make decisions for himself worth anything, relies on his mother to defend him, and so on) she absolutely, one million percent loathes. At one point she thought maybe they'd have a future if he stopped keeping demons for torture purposes (having been tortured by her father from age 0 to 10, she knows it's not fun) and he's her age (okay, two years older, but close enough) and there are so many reasons she could use him (he's rich, he has influence, he's powerful, and so on). However, being around him even in the name of business (she slays his problem demons, essentially) makes her want to puke (see a pattern here?). Therefore, his marriage proposal (the promise), while solid, could trap her in something she doesn't want (the prison). See how awkwardly I tied that in? Well, the plan is to make it flow more smoothly when I write it.
By the way, the other man is Marius So-and-So (that is not actually his last name, I just don't have one for him right now) and he's a special problem of his own. He's a serial killer, he makes sacrifices that hurt everyone around him including himself and he never realizes it, and basically he's like Callix's father. On the count of three, let's all say "Ewwwww!"
