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[alexseanchai]

no, self, past experience indicates that we cannot write a novel in three months, do not attempt to do a Saturation of Octarine for rainbowfic, yes that is a very shiny prompts list but there is no way you can get all thirty prompts into anything shorter than a novel, and you have enough novel ideas to be going on with anyway. no really DON'T.

(I am not sure whether I want y'all to go "DO IT" or "DON'T DO IT"!)

(it would be a thing of beauty if I thought I could actually accomplish it, though, all about the feminist movement and civil rights movement and queer rights movement and etc in a world with magic, spanning at least three generations and a whole lotta protagonists)

Comments

[ladyjanelly]

Write a synopsis for it? See how it feels? That might get it out of your system?

[alexseanchai]

Might do, thanks.

And if it does not get it out of my system, hurrah beginning of outline, right?

[shipwreck_light]

I'm afraid that as A) a mod and B) the demon of impulsivity*, I must suggest that you at attempt this challenge.

Perhaps you could do character portraits and domestic scenes (also as character building)? Hell, I do that to myself about novels I keep to myself.



* I maybe should have disclaimed that I am this before I introduced myself y/n/bacon?

[alexseanchai]

bacon!

I spent a couple hours last night with a spreadsheet, random.org, and behindthename.com coming up with many protagonists...

[shipwreck_light]

Everything's better with bacon, even protagonists?

[finch]

When I do saturations they're usually closer to miniature collections, where the response to each prompt is 1-3 sentences. XD

[alexseanchai]

Nod, okay.

[shipwreck_light]

Take finch's advice. Don't be like me!

I have two 17,000+ word saturations to my name, you see >_>;;;;;.

[alexseanchai]

:p

Might do, though. Trying to figure out how to stay true to the spirit of the novel I want to write and to the prompt list and do so in the space of three to six thousand words. There's too much complicated for three to six thousand words, so I have to pick the most significant throughline (probably gonna end up being Benjamin and Destiny and whatever it was I named Benjamin's kid who is Destiny's parent, but I'm not entirely sure)...