Anybody with demolition experience...

[gridlore]

.. know how to rig C-4 to blow Writer's Block?

This empty screen is mocking me. All the words and ideas are right behind my eyes, swirling there like jets stacked up over an airport, but the runways are closed..

I'm trying my usual tricks, writing something other than Traveller, writing haiku about the Giants

Ninth inning, our lead
Vanishes in summer fog
Bullpen blows the save.

But not one word is coming through.

*headdesk*

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

What're you trying to write about?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Doing planetary write-ups for Lunion Subsector. I did get about 500 words done on the nobility of the area, very rough, but there.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

So, what is the worst thing you could do to the subsector that they could have historically recovered from (or somewhat recovered from)?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Well, this is for Traveller, in an established sector of space. So mostly I'm taking the established setting and adding elements. The big plot I have..

Strouden is a world where an ethnic/religious minority rules the majority. The majority were admitted as refugees several centuries ago, and bred like rabbits, but their religion (think along the nature of the Quakers as a loose guildline) made them accept their place.

Now, a crisis has developed. Strouden is a monarchy, and the Royal Family also hold the Imperial title of Count Strouden. By long tradition, the Count lives at Capital (over a year away). When he decides to retire, or falls ill, the current heir to the Eirta (Grand Duke, roughly) is rendered sterile, formally renounces all claim to the throne, and is sent off to be the new Count. About ten years ago, word came to send a new Count, but the Heir announced that he had already secretly wed, and had children.. with a member of the majority faith! And he converted! Much ado, Heir goes into exile, next oldest kid goes to Core.

Now, the Eirta is dying.. and the old Heir is back, claiming that he *never renounced the throne*! He's promising big changes in the social structure for all, and the previously quiet majority is begging to rise up. Everything from marches to bombings. The Heir is being quietly backed by a huge corporation that wants to break a monopoly held by another Megacorp.

The big fun part of this? The planet holds 9 billion people, and is the most technologically advanced in the area. The economic and military stability of the region depends on Strouden being stable.