In my musing phase

Plotwork

To justify my dip in motivation, I use the logic I want to figure out the plot before writing chapter, which isn’t incorrect, but also isn’t much of an excuse as to the lack of progress on the story thus far.

I did commit to publishing progress on the story every week, so that is something I will do, the amount of progress that ends up happening is very flexible indeed.

So I will go back to progressing the plot, figuring out/coming up with some interesting plots in the story thus far and having a little fun with some of the ideas in the journey of our pseudo character John. I may be avoiding the killer stuff cause I just don’t want to think about it? Not sure how I should go about this.

Here are the main areas of the plot that need worked out:
(I’ve bolded the the answers, haven’t figured out all of them yet)

Background between John and the evil Seer, who I’m calling Dutch for now.

What exactly is Dutch’s story line? I need the entire backstory for the killings, the settling in Fairview under cover, and the attempting to kill John. Keeping a decent level of obscurity so nothing is well known until after the the killer is revealed, the little details have to be so obscure that there is no chance the reader will see them as hints to the killer.

Below are things the killer does in the story, that are currently set in stone.

Physical Killings, I originally said they have no reason, but I think there has to be some underlying reason that ties small details together.

Setting up in Fairview, and living there after the killings.

Background for working as a seer in fairview
(The seeing training is very intellectualized, and revered among the ice people, for good reason, however it is quite easy for an established seer to get away with stuff. Also someone who is paranoid likes to have a good grasp of the movements in and around the city)

Finding out Halliday is in town, and guessing he is hunting a killer only based on his reputation for bounty hunting. (He is messaged that John has arrived by the man the clerk messages. Initially John sees a name of someone, I wrote dutch as the name, but its going to be someone in town who likes to keep an eye on things, but is not the killer. I will call him Bart.)

Occupation of Bart, and the reason Bart contacts/tells Dutch of Johns arrival.


Deciding to set an ambush for halliday (Desperation, the classic “guilty flee when no man persueth” line, where he is so paranoid he is certain John knows he is the killer, and decides to set an ambush to take him out of the picture.)

Deciding to leave the ambush site as John is coming out. (A time crunch based on his seer occupation, typical routine testings take only 2-3 days, and he was expected back on the fourth day, so had to leave.)

Everything comes together, and John realizes who it is, as he walks into the bar