Working an issue

As a writer I like solving problems.

It can be something to do with the characters, the plot, making a twist work or something about the setting. 

The thing that bugged me about Romeo and Juliet was the simple fact that everything just was happenstance.  No real subplots going on.  Happy seridipidy that the stars lined up and the illiterate messenger just happened to run into Romeo and Benvolio when Romeo was in dire need of lifted spirits.

That little thing called "fate" was bugging me like you wouldn't believe.

I put a supernatural twist into Blood Mutiny mostly because it was an interest of mine.  Now it serves a deeper purpose.  It gives a reason why the things happened the way they did. 

Am I trying to improve on something?  No.  I am trying to tell the story my way, which is the only thing a writer could ever hope to do.