Weekly Plot Help - Week of November 3rd

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Got a problem in your NaNo? Who doesn't?! But we've got a way to help!

Post here with your plot problems, and all through the week members of the community will scan through and see if they can help.

AKA - The best way to procrastinate is to help others!

So post your problem. Then take a moment to look at everyone else's and see if you can help them.

People helping people. That's what makes this community great :)

So have at it!

Comments

[random-acts.livejournal.com]

Ooh, are you a fellow Scot?

In terms of whether he committed the murders in the story, even if they know his name, if there's no concrete evidence that he has committed any crime, I don't think that they would be able to charge him. They might take him in for questioning but I think under Scottish law (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1995/Ukpga_19950046_en_1.htm) you can only hold someone for 6 hours unless you arrest him and presumably they can't arrest him unless they have appropriate evidence.

And to flip it slightly, what if the fact she knows his name and keeps linking him to murders without real evidence leads to him making accusations of harassment against her? And so the police can't keep going to pick him up in case he sues? Being accused of harassing him would make her even more paranoid as well!

[sugar-shrapnel.livejournal.com]

Throw in a restraining order and she couldn't seek him out and everyone would treat her as crazy when she said he kept accidentally turning up in her local coffee house, on her street etc. Good for building tension.