So I know what I want in my novel and where I want the story to go. I've written what I wanted to write at various points down, filling in the plot holes later. But I came home last night after being out all day and hit a mental blank when I opened up the document.
So far there's three scenes/subplots in total that I want to write:
1. The ski trip/volcano eruption. I've written getting there and the next morning already but after the first kiss that happened in my excerpt I found myself unable to write further for that. I need a reason for Loki to be in the pit of the volcano other than poking fun at the fire dragon/fire golem that controls the lava flow, a reason for Persephone to have gone with him and a reason for the Big Bad to be there (other than kidnapping Persephone).
2. Hades' subsequent expulsion from the Academy, for when Persephone's kidnapped his rage makes his fire ability go out of control and the volcano erupts, destroying Pompeii. The Academy dean sees him as a threat, which may or may not lead to being hunted when he refuses to go quietly. Fortunately for him, Loki, Icarus, Poseidon, Bastet and Sekhmet are on his side.
3. After the battle with the Big Bad. Finding Persephone laying unconscious in the Asphodel Meadows of the Underworld, and Hades transferring a pomegrante seed into her through a kiss (which has symbolic influences, given that in the original mythos Hades gave Persephone six pomegrante seeds that would mean she had to stay six months in the Underworld with him).
My big question; which should I write?
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The volcano scene - then you get to check "Lava" from your list of Nano requirements (although I am not seeing either pirates or ninjas in your summaries so you have some additional writing to do!
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The volcano scene looks like the obvious one to write first in my opinion, the second scene seems dependant on the capture of Persephone, which I'm interpruting takes place at the volcano and the thrid scene looks like a climax sort of thing. After having typed this I realize you already know this and so regret what I typed but hold to my choice. For me the volcano scene would be far more interesting to write, to see what my characters chose to do and say.
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