Notes from today’s Noble Fusion Writers Group meeting:
1) The mansion will become actual ruins to reflect scavenging by fifty years of fortune hunters.
2) The venomous Monarch butterflies will be changed to venomous locusts (good symbolism) or venomous grasshoppers (actually toxic).
3) Olivia will awaken to the devastated mansion when she senses Alecsi has disappeared, when she also discovers her keepsakes have been stolen.4) Olivia’s mummification plays very well, especially her eyes shrunken like raisins.
4) It is possible that mook/renfield Eric will now be Erica, who has a uterine tumor, which Olivia will possess and use to manipulate Erica.
5) Despite her 5’9″ frame in life, Olivia will fit into the small Victorian terrarium.
6) Allusions to formerly extinct animal species being rediscovered must be prominent in the story.
7) The difference between “thrall” and “student” must be prominent theme; “Better the God you don’t know than the Devil you do.”
8) What is Olivia’s long term goal? May include driving away with silk scarf flowing. An Audi?