NaNo Plot Help!!!!! - November 5th - 8th

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Hey folks... need help with your plots?

THIS is the place to post your requests. Get help with your plots, and help other people with the snags that they have in theirs.

please do not post individual call outs for help in your plots. We set this system up for a reason, otherwise you'll have about 4000 people a day wanting to do so. Thanks.

Comments

[foulds.livejournal.com]

The murder caught the city's attention because it was very gruesome, but it caught his attention because it involved magic, and magic died out a long time before. The fact it involves magic tells him it's important, but I don't think he knows why magic's been used, just that it has, but it's enough to get him to come to this city.

[sativa]

How would he know magic's been used if all he's seeing are what I'm assuming are newspaper reports/tv news casts? Is there a special signature to magic that he can sense? I.e. even if a photograph is taken, it picks up some symbol/magic spell (kind of like a pentagram, etc.) that can't be seen by the naked eye? Or maybe there's some trademark on the body or in the murder itself that tips off your protagonist?

Maybe, said protagonist could go to city's leader to demand he's given access to the crime scene in order to fully determine if the murder was magical in nature. Of course, he'd probably have to give evidence of his abilities or proof of identity since I'd imagine most would be skeptical.

As for finding the murderer, why not have your protagonist focus on the magic and methodology used rather than the victim itself. Most crime scenes try to figure out a motive using the victim as the basis and widening their circle from there. It can be assumed that since magic hasn't been used in a long time, then either said person must be very old, or is descendant from a mage who passed the secrets down through the generations. another option could be the murderer is self-taught but that still suggests he had to learn from something. So, tracking the magic would be the first step I'd go and protoganist can leave the victim-murderer connection in the hands of the normal police.

Maybe that helped?

[foulds.livejournal.com]

Some interesting ideas there, thanks :)