NaNoWriMo Prep Project

2021 - Day 19: Plot: Complications

Oct. 19: - Plot: Complications ▼
Complications. Identify additional things that could go wrong for your protagonist. You are not required to resolve any problems yet, just create them. Remember: The more hardships your main character faces, the more readers will cheer them on, and the more engaged and invested the reader will be in your story. Brainstorm a list of problems you could throw at your protagonist(s) throughout the story, using ""What If,"" mind mapping (see the resources at the bottom of the calendar), freestyle writing, or any other form of brainstorming you prefer. Hint: Other characters are a great source of realistic strife, since characters often are driven by conflicting motivations.

Attack of popular boys in her hometown and the subsequent attack of those boys' girlfriends - one of which is Darla.

Touch / Contact aspect that effects her a great deal. She is an empath and can sense and see those emotions. In the city this is a struggle for her until she is able to get a handle on it and dull it with leather (great for cooler seasons. but what about summer???)

Loraine not wanting her son associating with a witch - threatening to expose her as a witch - which would make Grandfather do something more extreme because her already thinks she is not the right sort of person (he doesn't know about the witchcraft and he would be lethal is his hatred of that)

Grandfather is a tyrant - powerful business who has links to a darker side in terms of eliminating his opponents. He can't be linked to the deaths, but Zayda senses his darker side and knows of his more underhanded dealings with others. Does she tell Trace?

Trace may have to confront his Grandfather regarding these practices - which makes him not want to be part of inheriting the old man's legacy. He will face disinheritance.... which may also include his mother and sister. HIs sister is okay with it, but his mother.... she is the reason he has gone along with his Grandfather for so long.... he worries she will not be able to stand on her own.

They may all have to leave the City and go to a quieter, less ostentatious lifestyle area. No Connecticut, No Hamptons.... Maybe Maine or even Boston.