Sigh, I just realized I have to hack in part of a scene previously to explain why Minor Character A is in a sitatution where he's about to die horribly and the blame is going to be placed on Hero.
I also realized today that I really, really like my hero and heroine but I pretty much consider them selfish, immoral human beings. The kind it would be fun to hang out with, yes... but part of my story is about maturing as a person, and part of it is about redemption, and I actually think I'm doing a mildly decent job this time. Of course, I haven't even gotten to the point where I can really start the super-strength redemption...
Hero goes around killing red shirts?
Poor red shirts...
Heh...while I was driving around with Bilbo, I mentioned that most of the day today I've had that feeling you get where you think something wonderful is about to happen, but you can't for the life of you remember what.
Then I realized it was because stuff is actually going pretty well for my characters right now.
Bilbo said, "You know, there's something realllly sad about that..."