14. We Do Not Sleep: In which an investigator looking into a rash of sudden, unexplained deaths finds herself suddenly, inexplicably dead. And if anything, this only makes her more determined to find the killer.
1. This is, unusually for my universes/writing, pretty plot-driven -- I can't stop imagining it as a series of (possibly-YA) paranormal/supernatural investigation novels, and while I'd probably never get around to writing a series, that gives some idea what kind of feel I'd be going for when I sat down to write it, I think. And second, it has a very clear and definite main character, when I usually have at least two or three, if not just a whole ensemble.
2. Being MC-focused does not mean the MC is alone, of course. Also every character in this still needs names, whoops. But alongside Our Awesome Detective Protaganist is the Not-A-Protege, a girl with some serious issues in life who's been dead for a while and half-adopts, half-is-adopted-by the MC, and basically ends up her devoted follower, guardian angel, and investigative trainee all rolled into one; and The Ex-Coworker, who was not actually aware he was a medium instead of just really imaginative until the MC starts talking to him after death, and whose mental stability starts slowly deteriorating under that revelation as he tries to help her solve the case and also, you know, her own murder.
Bonus fact 3. Also there are deaths. Because I like deaths. The deaths aren't super helpful or anything, but they're generally friendly, some more than others. They are their own tight-knit community, something not-quite-human, and they're more interested in trying to help the ghosts to move on to a proper afterlife than trying to help the MC figure out why people are dying this way. Occasionally that is a big obstacle. Usually it's just a mild annoyance, because she is not ready to be dead yet, they're just going to have to wait.
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Date: 2016-05-15 01:11 pm (UTC)1. This is, unusually for my universes/writing, pretty plot-driven -- I can't stop imagining it as a series of (possibly-YA) paranormal/supernatural investigation novels, and while I'd probably never get around to writing a series, that gives some idea what kind of feel I'd be going for when I sat down to write it, I think. And second, it has a very clear and definite main character, when I usually have at least two or three, if not just a whole ensemble.
2. Being MC-focused does not mean the MC is alone, of course. Also every character in this still needs names, whoops. But alongside Our Awesome Detective Protaganist is the Not-A-Protege, a girl with some serious issues in life who's been dead for a while and half-adopts, half-is-adopted-by the MC, and basically ends up her devoted follower, guardian angel, and investigative trainee all rolled into one; and The Ex-Coworker, who was not actually aware he was a medium instead of just really imaginative until the MC starts talking to him after death, and whose mental stability starts slowly deteriorating under that revelation as he tries to help her solve the case and also, you know, her own murder.
Bonus fact 3. Also there are deaths.
Because I like deaths.The deaths aren't super helpful or anything, but they're generally friendly, some more than others. They are their own tight-knit community, something not-quite-human, and they're more interested in trying to help the ghosts to move on to a proper afterlife than trying to help the MC figure out why people are dying this way. Occasionally that is a big obstacle. Usually it's just a mild annoyance, because she is not ready to be dead yet, they're just going to have to wait.