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Goal: Finish drafting Act III from my planning

I don't really have a wordcount goal, but I have around Chapters 14-18 to finish, plus maybe an epilogue, so I'll report on that instead. I plan to write this like it's a first draft because in most ways it is.

Before April I do need to figure out the outline for Chapters 16-17, so I'll use PlanMo to help a bit with that!

PlanMo but it's somewhat specific to one act

Elevator Pitch

In a medieval-like setting, an individualistic soldier finds herself having to compromise her personal desires in order to benefit the group in their social system. She brings a piece of legislature to the Queen and hosts a tense and long-awaited dinner.


^ The first line kind of summarises the story as a whole, the second line describes what happens in Act III.

Nice Lim!! Since you mentioned an epilogue, I'm guessing you use a three act structure and this should take you to the end?

@Carlito Yep that's right! The draft kind of meanders away a bit from the original three act structure plot points, but that was the basis for my outline.

Character Motivations/Goals

Golzar wants to advance the welfare of serfs by restraining the actions of heroes in a piece of legislature. She also doesn’t want to annoy her fellow heroes *too* much, so she wants to make her ceremonial dinner as a Guild Councillor run smoothly despite the politicking. She wants these things because she feels obligated to carry out justice against a broken system but also feels loyalty and care to people from the same group as her. If she can negotiate the two, she won’t feel like she’s forsaken one for the sake of the other (which would make her feel bad/ regretful). Her biggest fear is the fear of betraying her values. I’m not actually sure what Golzar’s wrong belief here is – that’s something I can hopefully figure out for the second draft. I know she has a discomfort with the ‘high culture’ of Lucrece and also with manipulating people for political purposes, but she does end up manipulating at least one person in the third act. But I can’t really pin it down to a belief she has.

I haven’t come across a whole lot of books that really focus on the politics of fantasy worlds, so this is quite fascinating. You got this!