1. Whatโs your genre? Satire/humor with a bit of realistic fiction and mystery
2. Characters! Whoโs your protagonist? Your love interest, antagonist, pet, comic relief?
Protag = Chrissy Li
Thereโs no love interest because Iโm WAY too tired of all adult books having too many stupid romance plots, yall, although a snooty preppy pretentious Lusitanian (Lusitania = fake Rome, except very redneck) journalist named Aulus Crispin becomes her grudging partner-in-crime. September Kim is Chrissyโs friend and is a photographer for the paper the two of them work for, so sheโs like Chrissyโs willing partner-in-crime. Chrissy herself is a comic relief in a character, lmao, and the antagonist wellโฆmy plot is a convoluted mess, and at one point there were two antags, but Iโm trying to figure it out. I swear. And there are a SHIT ton of side characters, fml
3. Theme song. Is there a song that inspires you this year, or captures the mood youโre going for? What does that song make you see? (You can do this for your whole project, as well as individual characters, of you like.)
General theme song=Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus (this song is PEAK 2000s pop music thank u very much)
I made a playlist tho, u can listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/633rvW7QMEQGaSX6yg9Do0
4. Setting. Whereโs your story taking place? The capital city of Aciras, which is uhhhhh basically the US. Geographically, Lynston is where Washington, D.C. is, but itโs probably bigger area-wise and has more people than actual DC does.
5. Storyboards. Whoโs your main characterโs family? Whatโs their job, their hobbies, aspiration in life? The only really relevant family member Chrissy has is her great aunt, Jess. Sheโs like 80, retired, half-blind and half-deaf, and always burns the lasagna. Collects jade figurines instead of cats. She and Chrissy share a pretty ratchet apartment, and they have a fat lazy golden retriever named Slippers.
6. Style & Wardrobe. What would your protagonist wear, say, to school, on a mission, for lounging on a sea shore, summoning some demons, or dismantling the patriarchy? Chrissy doesnโt give a fuck where or when it is, sheโll always be out there with her sparkly pink wardrobe. I like to think of her style as sparkly biker chick glam-think hot pink crop tops, spiky stilettos, fishnets, black denim cutoffs, glittery eyeshadow, combat boots.
7. Worldbuilding. Literally the only thing different about novel universe and RL is that thereโs royalty??? Of course, I probably should try to delve deeper into how freaking Aciras is fake America if fake UK never colonized North America, but. Itโs not that relevant to the story, and Iโm lazy. Sue me?
8. My novel is X meets Y.
My novel is over-dramatic reality TV meets Game of Thrones
9. Social Media.
I plan on making social media profiles for more of the characters, but MC one is below. Click on pic to see captions as well
Here are the IGโs for two of the side characters
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10. More settings. Is there a fairy coffee shop, a bedroom, a flooded skyscraper, an enchanted garden, etc, thatโs important in your story? How would it look? I guess the Lynston Daily office? Itโs a pretty standard run of the mill office building. Boring AF. The Aciran palace is v stereotypical, v picturesque. Lea (Aciran princess) has a cute lil wildlife refuge and animal sanctuary out back
11. Share any character playlists you made and/ or tell us more about what your character sounds like. lmao oh boy. My MC has no playlist yet, but for side characters: 1 2 3 4. Chrissy would sound likeโฆOH you know what. She is totally super flippant, super sparkly k-pop. Her theme song is โBirthdayโ by Somi. At a close second is โDDU-DU DDU-DUโ by Blackpink. Fucking fight me !!
12. Defining Quotes. A phrase or motto that inspires you or your characters, a lyric, poem, or slogan they pretentiously quote, or a line from a book theyโd put on their inspiration board. Boy oh boy. That A+ quote from Gail Carriger: โI never gossip. I observe. And then I relate those observations to practically everyoneโ, for one. Blackpinkโs lyric in โBoombayahโ where itโs like, โmiddle finger up, F you pay meโ is Big Chrissy Energy TM. Some other good ones: โ5โ2 but my attitude 6โ1โ, โI donโt dress up for boys. I dress up to stare at my reflection as I walk by store windows-obviouslyโ, โOOPS! Youโre not invitedโ is a good one from her theme song, โIf youโre sad, add more lipstick and attackโ, โI was not made to be subtleโ, โCute. But psycho. But cuteโ, et cetera, et cetera. Of course, we canโt forget the iconic โI donโt fuck with youโ, by song-writing master Big Sean (a line that must be immediately followed with โYou little stupid ass bitch I ainโt fucking with youโฆI got a million trillion things I would rather doโ)
13. Coffeshop AU. What would your story look and feel like as_? BOY OH BOY. We have a HS + Superpowers AU, where Chrissy would probably be the same character, but instead of stalking royalty sheโd be a regular olโ celeb stalker who just happens to run into all the side characters who are HS students with powers??? Also, we have a high fantasy AU, but not sure where Chrissy would fit into that. Last AU is like, urban fantasy mafia. Chrissy is the nosy reporter who gets her dumbass mixed up with all these superpowered mafia people. Big RIP.
14. The Big Bad. Knowing the end of your story can help you get there. What do you think your story is heading towards? LMAO dear god. Fucking shit. My story definitely needs a sequel, fuck my LIFE. It would probably end in a cliffhanger of sorts-find out who killed the missing fiancรฉ, except info never really goes public, and more shit goes down. It ends happily ever after for Chrissy, but not so much for some of the other characters. Yikes.
shoutout to @vampirkaninchen for her lit AF questionnaire!
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