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[luciazephyr]

HEY YOU


YEAH YOU, READING THIS

I know a lot of the folks on my FList collect writing meta and advice. Does anyone have anything for writing a story that revolves around a crime? I have pages upon pages of notes for the Psych fic, but I have no idea how to structure something like this.

Any help, folks and fen?

-Lucy

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[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

There's actually supernatural elements int he main plot (the cases and the Tarot influence) and the subplot (Lassiter's relationship with Death and his long-ignored psychic abilities). Both are interconnected because with Lassiter's abilities and Death's help, no one would ever figure out about the supernatural element to the cases due to one of those SEP field plot devices (I love Douglas Adams, what can I say).

And I'm not going SMeyer the thing up. I'm reading as much of The Sandman as I can to incorporate that universe's rules into the story and I have tons of notes on the Tarot and how people usually mess up the cards and ignore the Minor Arcana altogether. That I'm not extremely worried about.

And Lemme say, Doing the Research is sometimes totally awesome. It even gave me a precedent in Gaiman's work for Death making deals with people and taking personal interest, which was a worry of mine for justifying, but now I can point to "The Time Of Your Life" and go hey lookie here.

I wish I was writing this in the MGS fandom so I could whinge at you about this more. You're immensely thought provoking and helpful.