Heys, people. I got a problem with my story that shouldn't be this huge, but that has made me go totally, completely stuck. It's a scene where one of my MC's is inside an unknown, laboratory-hospital-sort of building, and is trying to get out of there, while she is being chased by the people who brought her there. What she really needs is a place to hide to try and work things out, but, well... where does she hide?
I thought of the ventilation shaft, but it's too much of a cliche, and I can't seem to think of anything else.
Thing is, since she is an angel - basically a human species, except for with wings - she isn't the easiest to find a good spot for...
Any ideas?
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Avoid clichés like the plague.
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Nov 24, 2007 - 23 50
hmm... well, there's always the chapel. She could get a little zinc oxide on her face and pretend to be a holy statue...heh.
Or hang out in the waiting room of the mental illness ward? Probably look like she fit right in there.
Gargoyle, perhaps? On a ledge?
Maybe she could be the 'invisble friend' of someone in the children's ward. Kids love keeping secrets like that.
Ramble (who's up too late again after the 4a.m. Friday frenzy...)
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Nov 25, 2007 - 05 50
Well, yes, any of those ideas might work :) Maybe the one where she hides among the gargoyles will be a little bit easy to detect, though :P forgot to mention that most her pursuers are angels as well, so they'll probably look in those places first =)
Thanks for the suggestions, I'm thinking of using the chapel, that's a great idea... now I can finally get a move on with the story :D
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Dec 28, 2007 - 05 03
Why not looking for a common place...like the hospital laundry. If it is a Sunday or a holiday, maybe there aren`t too many people working and she might hide behind the piles of "dirty" (which are still white) bedclothes! Sure there are huge piles of white sheet, so her wings can`t be seen easily and its not a place where you go searching for an angel first?
Or you hide her in an old and closed part of the building, but that`s where I would look first.
I, if I were an angel ;-)), would just get into the next empty bed on a station for old people, pull the cover up to my chin and pretend sleeping.
lg alirion
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Feb 25, 2008 - 15 08
how bout the laundry room! just a thought
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Feb 26, 2008 - 12 11
Yeah, that's an idea...! The laundry room. Interesting =) It actually makes a better hiding place than the chapel... although now that scene has already been written, haha :D
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Feb 27, 2008 - 09 27
What did you end up doing?
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Mrt 5, 2008 - 18 25
Hahaha, it's actually quite funny :D
First of all, I wrote the scene with her hiding under the, what's it called, place where the priest usually stands preaching. Underneath there is some room to store the chapel's instruments. So, I put her in there and then made her capture a guy who simply happened to come in to the story at that point :D Then I was so weirded out about not knowing what would happen next that I avoided writing about it for a good twenty pages =D
By now I just figured she'd been given drugs that make her see illusions and feel panicky. Saves me the trouble of making up some stiff chain of events coming up next, I don't have to redo the scene, cause it's pretty vivid in the way it now describes her drugged state of being :D Plus, it actually fits the story.
Uhmm, this whole genious "let's drug my character so that she simply wakes up and I'm spared the trouble" idea didn't sound as cheesy when I wrote it into the story...