Attn Muse: An unexpected thank you.
Aug. 28th, 2007 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsFrom: Production
To: Principal Muse
Subject: An unexpected thank you.
I know the Caprice Starr series doesn't look promising right now and we'd all much rather be doing other things, but it is still the current assignment for the next ninety days or so.
That said, I would like to thank you for delivering the final plot twist for Nymphs in November this morning. I believe that the continuity of all four chapters is not terribly fractured at this point, the themes are believable, the ending credible, and the connecting scenes line up adequately. It is now being sent to post-production for spell checking and final review. The total word count of 27,295 is likewise impressive. That's novella territory. Well done!
That said, please explain your latest plot twist in Caprice Starr. Production doesn't quite understand your intentions in taking "the second highest-scoring student ever to come out of the academy" and giving her "the scuttiest assignment the BRTP has to offer." Are we still going with the fractured council theory?
To: Principal Muse
Subject: An unexpected thank you.
I know the Caprice Starr series doesn't look promising right now and we'd all much rather be doing other things, but it is still the current assignment for the next ninety days or so.
That said, I would like to thank you for delivering the final plot twist for Nymphs in November this morning. I believe that the continuity of all four chapters is not terribly fractured at this point, the themes are believable, the ending credible, and the connecting scenes line up adequately. It is now being sent to post-production for spell checking and final review. The total word count of 27,295 is likewise impressive. That's novella territory. Well done!
That said, please explain your latest plot twist in Caprice Starr. Production doesn't quite understand your intentions in taking "the second highest-scoring student ever to come out of the academy" and giving her "the scuttiest assignment the BRTP has to offer." Are we still going with the fractured council theory?
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Date: 2007-08-28 11:28 pm (UTC)TO: Production
Heya, I just got forwarded your query from Septenary (http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/primary) Muse (Turns out that Principal Muse was out of the office, and as they say "...rolls down hill!").
The plot point of rewarding the best and the brightest with crap that makes them consider shooting everyone in sight usually comes from a series of places:
1) Bad politics. Getting the wrong person with clout mad at you for doing your job.
2) "Best person to fix the problem." The reward for a job well done is more work.
3) "Sacrificial lamb." The person that will be guarneteed to die heroically can be really useful to people with a, shall we say, "higher purpose" in mind.
4) "A visit from the Suprise Party department." Heinlein in "Glory Road" mentions two departments that give out assignments. The first is the Fairy God-Mother Department that does things like assign you to Hawaii when you're infantry and there's a shooting war going on. What the Suprise Party department does... Well, we'll leave that up to your imagination.
Choose any of the above, but often times no one truely know WHY the universe is against them, except the Author has is about to do something... twisted.
Love to the family.
Vigenary Muse Stand-in.