Beating your head against objects is not productive

Though it is what I have been doing most of the night and well into the day. You see, my next blog was supposed to be all excited about how we have the season mapped at last-all 22 episodes picked and ready to be fleshed out and written. Well, not quite ready for writing, but you get my point.

I went over the votes. I figured out which ones had the most votes, whilst narrowing down the many episode ideas that involved targeting certain main characters. I found a nice order to put them in that made sense with the story and character arcs. I posted it, and was quite proud.

Then I was reminded of a very important detail I forgot. The introduction of a character that is very important to the season, and really needs an episode in itself to introduce him. Can't be a B plot sort of thing. It needs to be a standalone episode as this character will carry the story of that episode. So now I have to find a way to fit him in without throwing off the character and story arcs, which is a lot harder than it sounds.

The other thing causing me to beat my head against objects such as my laptop would be assigning writers. We have episode preferences from each writer. We know their strengths and weaknesses. We know who came up with which episode as they get first consideration. Should be a done deal, right? Wrong. It's much more difficult than I thought it would be. Every writer has strengths and weaknesses, and pairing up compatible writers to balance those out and produce the best possible season is quite tough. We want to give everyone the chance to write, as this is a collaborative effort. The question now is how we do that.

If I hit my head against the laptop enough, I know the solutions to these problems will come to me. Oh yes, it will.

Or loss of consciousness.