A Problem in 5 steps

[kawuli]

1. This is a thing that exists:


2. @lorata gets “The Sword of Moss and Rain” and:


3. Four double-sided pages of notes on a story in which magic is women’s work and wars are fought with steel (by men), until something something invasion, all weapons confiscated, woman magic-user creates a sword out of water, strategery, gender shenanigans, overthrow the government, HOORAY!


Which would all be cool except…

4. I will probably never actually write it.

and also

5. I have like 4 WIPs and a thesis I need to write first.

Comments

[misskruger.livejournal.com]

That's really cool! And you may not write it but I'm sure planning it was fun, and now it can just percolate in your mind for a while and perhaps a character will wander out eventually.

Mine would be The Girl of Ash and Dust, which makes me think of burial rites - ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Maybe she's the daughter of an undertaker, or a healer, or she has the Sight and knows when people will die?

OOH! Or maybe it's your classic YA time travel novel! You have your classic 'wandered off on a school trip' time traveller girl, and she travels back to Pompeii and falls for a girl there (who ends up dying and being one of the bodies in the exhibit, but then our modern girl meets another girl who looks just like her crush from Pompeii... I would have read the shit out of that as a teenager.)

[seta-suzume.livejournal.com]

Whether you write it or not, I'm always impressed with your many story ideas! You never seem to be lacking in plots!

(I feel like I'm always more 'Okay, I know I need an actual plot, but where might I find one?' XD;)