school reports: boring, necessary... worldbuilding?

[aamcnamara]

I thought I just got out of the public school system.

But apparently, though you can take me out of the public school system, you can't take the public school system out of me (or I could always blame the Shadow Unit writers...), because when I sat down to figure out the worldbuildy thing today, instead of a nice normal free-typing session, it came out as a school report by my main character.

Who has not and would not write a school report on this particular aspect of the world, and does not attend school. Who, in fact, probably could not write a school report to save her life.

Then again, who am I to complain? I just work here.

On the other hand, it's an issue, because now when I think of that character, I assume she knows everything she wrote in that school report. And following her logic, the natural next step... will bring her to a very easy solution to her main problem.

I guess now I have to find a way to keep her from taking that next step.

In other news, I finished with my first batch of slush from Ideomancer today! Now I feel like a Real Editor.

So I think I've earned a quiet evening in, reading The Shadow Speaker. I started reading it yesterday, and so far it is excellent.