Domino is a mathematical polygon of order two made up of identically patterned squares connected edge-to-edge. Historically, dominoes were commonly made from wood or bone but now are often produced from plastic and other man-made materials. They are typically twice as long as they are wide, making them able to fit neatly into a standard playing card deck and allow them to be stacked vertically to form columns. In addition, they usually feature a line in the middle that divides them visually into two squares, called ends. Each end has an arrangement of spots or pips (as used on dice) that determine the value of the piece when placed against another. A tile with fewer or no pips is sometimes called a blank or zero.
Whether you are a “pantser” who writes off the cuff, or you carefully plot your manuscript using outlines and Scrivener, the way that you create your scenes in your novel will have a significant impact on the overall story. For example, if you write a scene and it has no impact on the events that follow it, something is wrong. It may mean that you’ve chosen to take your heroine down a different path than you originally planned, or it could be that your character has uncovered important information but didn’t convey it clearly.
In a similar way, if your scene isn’t pushing the plot forward in any significant way, it might be time to make some changes. As a general rule, each scene domino should build on the last one.
If you’ve ever eaten a Domino’s pizza, you know that the chain’s success is built on its willingness to change and listen to their customers. The company’s first CEO, David Brandon, put the value of listening to customers into practice, implementing things like relaxed dress codes and leadership training programs that addressed some of the main complaints people had about the restaurant. When Patrick Doyle took over, he carried on with this practice.
Domino’s psionic aura allows her to alter probabilities, giving her good luck while causing bad luck for others. This can vary from having her enemy’s equipment malfunction to hitting just the right button to shut down an overloading machine. Domino’s psionic ability can also cause improbable coincidences to happen, which is how she and Cable were able to help a rogue CIA agent named Ekatarina Gryaznova defeat the genetically enhanced superhuman droid codenamed Jericho during a mission in El Salvador.
When the X-Men’s reality was temporarily overlapped with Reality-295, Domino helped restructure X-Force under her ex-boyfriend Cable before investigating a rash of mutant murders committed by a feral Grizzly mutate and finding her former Six Pack teammate Copycat. She and Cable later joined a new S.H.I.E.L.D. incarnation of Weapon X but when it was revealed that the organization’s depraved director Malcolm Colcord had lobotomized her to control her powers, she left the team and returned to her mercenary ways.