I am writing a very long fanfic and currently have run into several interesting dilemas. (the least of these being that I suspect I don’t know how to spell ‘dilema’)
The rules of this fanfic sort of dictate that my main OC (and her various friends) can’t be too heroic. The whole sort of point of her is that she observes events from the outside, like Elton from Love & Monsters. Except now Elton has actually shown up, and I have found something for him to do but am lost with the others. Right now there’s a very interesting but extremely tricky bit where essentially the choice is ‘either a) about a hundred people die but you and your family live, b) about a hundred people live but you and your family probably die’ It’s harder than it seems to write, simply because of all the rules I’ve set myself, and because of the fact that since this is set during the Dalek-Cyberman war there has to be a Deux Ex Machina for all the characters. Gaaaah.
I am also sick to death of describing things blowing up.
(I’ve been talking rubbish all day. I’m sorry! Although interestingly enough, this is helping me work everything out.)