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Suspended on Account of Brainstorming

Between us, we have managed to push me into a corner.

BoM is mostly consistent between its branches (but it's far from perfect). This consistency extends beyond characters and character traits and histories and relationships to include events. What I mean is that there are certain events that are assumed to "come off"in every branch unless Will does something, directly to indirectly, to interfere with them. I keep a kind of calendar in my notes where I keep track of such events, and in whatever branch I'm writing I try to keep track of those events in case they become relevant to the storyline.

One such event just became relevant.

The storyline I've been writing for you guys is now hung up on a Sunday; the previous Friday there was a party at Catherine Muskov's house, and something happened there, something to do with Hannah and this voodoo plot that the girls are tormenting her with. But I've never decided exactly happened or what caused it.

But now I have to figure it out. Which means I've got to do some research about voodoo because I don't want it to be the cliched stuff.

I have a book that I'm reading, and I like it because it emphasizes (controversially) the "astral" aspects of voodoo, and astrology is a big part of the BoM mythos. I'm about halfway through the book, and with the weekend I should be able to plow through it. But I'm going to have to take a few days off to do that research and to do some sketching and thinking before I can return to writing.