Weekly Plot Help - November 17th

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

I was waiting until the server move happened before putting this up. I'd have gone crazy if it had been lost.

Anyway - here's the place for you to look for help with your plots! Post your questions here.

And hey... all you people already over 50K? YES I'M LOOKING AT YOU! Get in here and help these people out now that you don't have anything else to do! *grin*

Comments

[alouette-sparra.livejournal.com]

Okay, so, I have this novel. It's set during an alternate history version of World War I in an Earth where magic, demons, etc. are very much real and fairly accepted in Europe at least. Right now, I'm stuck during the first winter of the war. The protagonists (Germans) are trying to launch an offensive against the antagonists (Iberians in the novel, equivalent to real world Spain and Portugal). Thing is, the Iberians know their every move, so they keep getting quagmired. It's basically trench warfare.

So, the plot has stalled because they can't figure out just how the Iberians know EVERYTHING about their movements, no battles are being won, and the German leaders are sick of wasting troops in pointless attempts at advancing.

Help?

[oshngirl.livejournal.com]

If magic is thoroughly accepted can the Iberians have a wizard/warlock/witch who with a crystal ball or some other magical incantation can see into the German's war room. When the Germans bring in their own fortune teller who can cleanse the hole in the room or even a traitor in their midst?

[sugarvoice.livejournal.com]

Is magic accepted in Iberian?
Maybe they could have a mind reader or someone with foresight?
Or, though it is a bit cliche, there could be a traitor among the Germans. Or maybe a demon posing as a soldier that died? Something like that?