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Jan 21, 2021 06:23AM
Hi Halima!
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halima 🤍 wrote: "Stories of POC legends, many of ethnic minorities and who have faced racism in the past, rising up to use their colour as a strength in society Friends to lovers?
Main female and male protagonis..."
Ooh, I like it.
Mine's kind of a rough idea, but it's basically just a YA sci-fi, of this girl who'd been taken in as a child by this organization and she going undercover in this space military, kind of? And she joins this team with 5 people (and I'm trying to keep it really diverse, hopefully, I'm succeeding), including her, and I'm kind of debating between enemies to lovers and friends to lovers with her and the captain. Sorry, I'm really bad at explaining.
halima 🤍 wrote: "Characters: - Ayat: Pakistani girl, has the power of wisdom, is frowned upon by her family because she doesn’t want to pursue a typical life of an arranged marriage, desi light academia
- Sebastiá..."
I love those characters!! :)
halima 🤍 wrote: "I just posted above my rough character outlines, I’m working on their backstories atm and I’ve also got half a plot if you wanna see it"Definitely. I still need to work on the world-building, so I'm trying to make a background story for the world by characters are in.
halima 🤍 wrote: "Ayat is running away from her sister’s nikkah as she was pursued by a group of thugs when she was gathering the preparations backstage. She attempts to run away but only gets as far as Toronto airp..."oooh I love it! Are they gonna be lovers?
halima 🤍 wrote: "I’m also thinking about Seb’s backstory. He’s Latino, specifically from the Dominican Republic, so I want him to have a mafia backstory. So before the point he meets Ayat, he’s going to leave the g..."I like it. :)
Is it gonna be in multiple POVs or just one?
Yayy I'm proud of myself I wrote almost 3000 words today!! :)
halima 🤍 wrote: "Okay so I’m a bit stuck for the middle of my plot. I want the group to come together in this time. I was thinking Ayat and Seb do a social media campaign but at the same time I want their abilities..."Of course!
Hmm, okay, so something needs to happen for them all to come together.
Mind telling me about the world a little bit?
halima 🤍 wrote: "It’s alright, I’ve just been fantasising about them all night so I kinda helped myself 😂"😅
oh cool. I have a lot of homework so I haven't done much. I only have the basic outline of my story but I'm already writing. I'm not patient enough to figure out the whole plot before writing 😂
So, idk if I told you, but I use Nanowrimo (https://nanowrimo.org/) which is basically this thing that helps you track your writing. And they have this event every April, where you are challenged to write a 50000 word novel in a month. So you have to write 1667 words a day. So, I just wanted to tell you that I am planning a new story right now, and I think I'm gonna do that for Nanowrimo!Also, if your story planning is almost done, you could do it with me haha.
halimasbookishthoughts ♡ wrote: "Omggg, that sounds so cool!! I’ll have a look at it. Yeah, we can totally do it together since we haven’t spoken much about our novels. How’s your writing going? :)"
ooh, so I'm kind of planning it out right now, my new story is a whole new setting, mostly the same characters. I don't really know yet if it would be considered fantasy or sci-fi haha. But what happened last time was I didn't have much of an idea of what would in the middle of the story, I had the beginning and the end, but then I just got burned out. And YESS it would be so fun to do together.
How about you?
halimasbookishthoughts ♡ wrote: "I’ve still got the end of my plot to figure out, but I’ve got my middle and beginning!! Hopefully, I can think of my ending soon since I’ve got a couple ideas floating about in my head. I’m back at..."nice! haha school does NOT leave any time for writing
halimasbookishthoughts ♡ wrote: "Hey Ritz, how’s your writing going??"Hey Halima, it's going okay. I don't think I'll be able to write in April, but probably in May. Hbu?
