OBVIOUSLY I FAIL AT SLEEPING
So, summer classes have started, and I'm already wondering why on earth I thought this was a good idea. What do you mean, we're learning past tense on the third day back? What do you mean I have 30+ homework assignments due on Thursday? What do you mean, I have to wake up at eight in the morning?
All of this means, I'm actually really excited. XD (Well, maybe not about the homework.) It's just a little bit lost underneath the current horror at being completely unable to fall asleep earlier today. Now I'm torn - do I go to sleep now, and risk not waking up in time to study like I was supposed to earlier? Or do I stay up late and sleep in a little bit?
This as an aside. My cat is ridiculously cute. ♥
But the reason I haven't been studying past tense (and why do I have to learn things BEFORE class, anyway? How lazy =P) is because I have been THINKING. About THINGS.
Things, in this specific context, like that one story with the horribly horrible name that I just call the Mo-story in my head. Which is a bit curious, itself, as Mo isn't the viewpoint character. On the other hand, maybe it isn't, because Mo is the axis of the story. Idk.
Anyway, because I have things to do in an academic context, of course that means that my brain is anywhere but on Spanish. But! It has meant that I've been thinking more about this story, which I've really been wanting to do.
Things, in no order:
1. Rose really needs some time as her own character. I think there are a few glimpses of non-Mo oriented-things near the end, but I think I'm going to restructure the beginning a bit, and have more of an introduction there. Show her friends, show her blowing them off once the summer starts, that sort of thing. Talk about her family a bit more.
2. Speaking of family, Mo's mother. For one thing, I think that could be an interesting dynamic! Mo/Nikki, Rose/Nikki, maybe even Nikki/other people. For another, I think Nikki really knows more than Mo thinks she does - after all, Nikki did give Mo that necklace.
3. Irt the necklace, of course, there is like, more there than symbolism. A rudimentary limiter on Mo's power, probably, that eventually gets overpowered.
4. Rose's sister. That could be an interesting dynamic too! I feel like I added characters in on a whim near the end, which is not entirely untrue.
5. On the other hand, I like how there's minimal mention of other people in the summertime. So for the most part, I think I will try to keep it at least at a 3:1 ratio of Mo parts to other people parts. And then, probably, reverse it outside of the summer.
Aaaaand, true to form, now that I'm doing something, I'm sleepy. So I think I might leave this here and catch some fairly needed sleep.