I was lying in bed last night, turning my nanowrimo idea over. I get my best ideas late at night. I'm utterly useless until well after midday and have zero productivity until at least 3pm. I don't get going until the day is growing dusty and old. Night time is when my brain really starts to function and shifts into gear. I lack focus during the day, like I'm not properly awake and can't give anything my full attention. It's like when you let your eyes slip you of focus, but with my brain, and I can't make it slide back into focus. I've often worried I might have ADHD or something as I really struggle to take things in and concentrate properly, but the online tests I've done say No.
Lying in bed last night I was thinking about Ray. I don't want him to be famous, but I need him to be well known enough to have a social media presence so my character can stalk him online. I don't have a name for her yet. He needs to have teenage children so she can stalk them. I want him to be married of course, to make him even more out of reach to her.
What is her backstory? What are my three acts going to consist of? Will she and Ray ever meet? I always get good basic solid ideas for stories, but the devil is in the details and creating a complex world in which these people live and develop with a satisfying conclusion and no plot holes is the decidedly tricky bit.
I like dark, sad tales with bleak endings so I don't want her to ever meet Ray and be happy with him. I don't want a trite ending of her being sent to a psych ward either. She could just delete her accounts and move on to stalking someone else....