I'm writing another draft of my manuscript and I'm changing some things around. There are two things that I'm in desperate need for help with and because they connect, I'll post both here. The first thing is information that links into everything throughout the book... If that makes sense. My idea is that my main character is hunting down people who used to work for project and she's after information about the guy behind it and these three guys she's just found give her a bit of information. I'm not sure on what that information would be because I really want it to be kinda limited but have enough in it so that when other things happen (dead body's with clues that literally have the guy's name written on them so that the characters assume that it's way, way, way too obvious and assume that that guy is being framed, also bombings), she can put everything together YET not in an traditionally 'I'm-intelligent-I-know-the-answer'/Hermione kind of way because that is another character but in a way for the main character to figure it all out in a way that emphasizes that she is good at strategy and battle strategy and having that kind of spy intel (Black Widow style?). So throughout the entire thing, she has has all this information and these clues but she's missing some information to put it all together but knows the stratgey of the entire thing. My example is Sherlock Holmes in A Game of Shadows where he's kinda almost raving mad with his conspiracy and Watson doesn't believe him. That kind of 'I know there is a connection and I know something is going on. This all points to it but the proper evidence isn't there' obsessiveness because it's information that seems to have no connection to each other, even from a logical, intellectual stand-point (so the very intelligent people couldn't put it together either - so you know no plot-holes), but the main character just insists that they do. And trying to explain it in a way that allows the main character to still have that intelligence and knowledge but not make everyone else seem like brain-dead morons...
That was a lot of typing!
Second thing is my ending. Originally I was going to have the bad guy try to be the traditional I'm going to take over the world bad guy but I don't want to do that anymore. I can't think of anything though - it leads from all of the information throughout the manuscript and it's something big and climatic because they were lead into a trap but I can't think of anything. At all.
The first thing is information that links into everything throughout the book... If that makes sense.
My idea is that my main character is hunting down people who used to work for project and she's after information about the guy behind it and these three guys she's just found give her a bit of information. I'm not sure on what that information would be because I really want it to be kinda limited but have enough in it so that when other things happen (dead body's with clues that literally have the guy's name written on them so that the characters assume that it's way, way, way too obvious and assume that that guy is being framed, also bombings), she can put everything together YET not in an traditionally 'I'm-intelligent-I-know-the-answer'/Hermione kind of way because that is another character but in a way for the main character to figure it all out in a way that emphasizes that she is good at strategy and battle strategy and having that kind of spy intel (Black Widow style?). So throughout the entire thing, she has has all this information and these clues but she's missing some information to put it all together but knows the stratgey of the entire thing.
My example is Sherlock Holmes in A Game of Shadows where he's kinda almost raving mad with his conspiracy and Watson doesn't believe him. That kind of 'I know there is a connection and I know something is going on. This all points to it but the proper evidence isn't there' obsessiveness because it's information that seems to have no connection to each other, even from a logical, intellectual stand-point (so the very intelligent people couldn't put it together either - so you know no plot-holes), but the main character just insists that they do.
And trying to explain it in a way that allows the main character to still have that intelligence and knowledge but not make everyone else seem like brain-dead morons...
That was a lot of typing!
Second thing is my ending. Originally I was going to have the bad guy try to be the traditional I'm going to take over the world bad guy but I don't want to do that anymore. I can't think of anything though - it leads from all of the information throughout the manuscript and it's something big and climatic because they were lead into a trap but I can't think of anything. At all.
Okay, I'm going to stop typing now.
Thanks!