Howdy y'all. Okay so I'm in that writing mood again where I really want to write something but I just can't think of a way to start something or really what I would even write about. It's so frustrating and I just watched this YouTube video where this young woman who was a published author was giving brutal advice to young or new writers. A lot of what she was saying was that if you aren't writing you aren't a writer, and spending your time planning and brainstorming things to write isn't writing. this really bummed me out because I want to be a writer but all I do is kind of spend a bit of time developing half-baked ideas which is super frustrating because I feel like writing about them and using them but then my brain comes up with excuses because I haven't fully formed them yet and clearly I can't write when I haven't thought every detail of my ideas through. UGH my brain is so stupid. Yet I am my brain. So I guess my brain just insulted itself? Weird.
Anyway. The whole point of this was that I could use the structure of my blog posts to sort out my ideas a bit so I have something to write about, which should work for me because the way my blog posts are, they are just word vomit which is how my brain thinks most of the time anyway so at least this way I'm getting those words out instead of developing my ideas a bit and then forgetting them.
My first idea/concept/i don't know what has to do with a pirate society. Of course I am all about those strong female leads so I want my main chick to be, well, a chick. But not just any chickadeee. I already named her because I just love a good name, her name is Gaia although that is subject to change. I do like gaia though but maybe i will change the spelling gaya does that look more piratey?? eh its my world I don't have to be following any rules. I am well aware though, that 'strong female lead' has become synonymous with physically strong kick-assery female lead which I dig but also kick-assery is less important to me than having a nuacnced and complex relatable character. I think I am going to have her parentless? although maybe not. I think it would be cool if one of her parents died and then she still has one parent and that parent is supposed to be captaining the ship but the loss of dead parent crippled them. that could make for some interesting internal conflict with gaya, maybe she isn't ready or doesn't want the burden of responsibility that the ship entails. even more interesting though, what if gaya had an older sibling, a brother , and he was supposed to be the next captain of the ship but there was an accident, perhaps the same one her dead parent was involved in, and he is killed sudenly. so gaya is suddenly drowning in responsibility and gried, and the one person who should be helping her shoulder the burden, the person who she always looked up to maybe?? is part of the cause.
I do like that actually. But now I have to figure out what happened to her brother and mother. i want her mother to be a total badass, fighting misogyny since 1880 total joan of arc type. OOH maybe she could die john snow style?? no too elaborate, this story isn't about her. I think it would be devestating enough if her mother was this great and powerful female figure and then she is taken away by something so small, like a cold or an infected wound (RIP DROGO) something like that. her brothers death i will leave for now, I could make it part of her motivations I love a good vengeance story.
OOH what if she is on this vengeance fueled quest for her brother and there comes a point where she has to choose between her vengeance and the safety of her crew.
anger begets more anger three billboards style?? I really like that message. UGHH YESSSS and I can show her developing, becoming obsessed and consumed in her hatred and anger.
I want a scene where she just breaks down and she isn't supported by a man but her sisters, her crew.
okay so I think I have achieved maximum strong female lead-ness with this. she can still be a total kick-ass chickadee.
OH what if when she has to assume power of the ship, the crew rejects her? I would love that. there could be a scene where she throws everyone overboard who is disloyal to her and then she gets a brand new female crew YES
okay I'm thinking ot get rid of the whole father is a drunk after the death of mother thing? i think the brother death and shock of responsibility is enough? wait no, the more fuel for her angry fire the better.
I would really like to introduce all her new crew members as flashbacks? that would be fun and it would slow down the narrative a bit.
I think I've got that off to a good start now.
My other main idea is a sort of magic system in a world. At first it was just gloves but I'm thinking of developing it into other stuff now because gloves just haven't proved to be practical.
the thing was that the gloves would store magic, and there would be heaps of different kinds, piano playing gloves, elemental magic gloves, hair transforming gloves, run your hands through your hair and it changes your hair style. The possibilities are really endless. and it could be that gloves are really coveted amongst the people, and also really hard to get on or off, so sometimes in the rougher areas of town, you would find handless corpses. I did really like this glove idea but then I had more ideas. this kind of magic system would transfer really easily into other things, like earrings, cufflinks, glasses. More subtle accessories.
I've just had an idea. I think it would be cool if gloves were considered a lower class kind of magic and the subtler stuff, earring, cufflinks, pocketwatches etc, were what the upper class used. Except the upper class used a different kind of magic, an influential magic? so your earring could give you extra charisma, or your rings could make you appear more beautiful. the idea is that the upper class have use for a magic that helps them social climb and influence. OOH the really snobby rich folk could look down on the gloves of the common folk, seeing it as a brutal kind of magic.
I am getting tired and I have written a lot but I might come back and actually write or maybe do a bit more developing of things
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what if I combined these two worlds?????????????????? that could work.
