Flip a coin. If you are disappointed in the outcome, then you’ll have your answer.
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It’s either a romance or that Shade story.
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YAY ONC! I’m participating this year! Hopefully they aren’t cut throat again with cutting in round 1 like they were last year! So exciting!
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If I were to write it, it would be a Richard story. That narcissistic immortal assassin would definitely say that while murdering someone.
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I like all these prompts, but every year ONC comes at an extremely inconvenient time for me. Me and prompts don’t mix either. I’ve never been happy with anything I wrote with a prompt.
I guess I feel limited or pressured in some way.
Good luck to everyone participating! 
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That was crazy.
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Romance would be harder on you. So, if you want a challenge, you do that, but remember how your first one went with me encouraging you to off the characters, to just get through it.
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Yeah, I am thinking about Shade, Igor and Felix. But would their rise be interesting as teenagers?
I was wondering if I want to add romance and decided that I might leave it at romantic tension only.
It’s tough to pull off romance in a novella. There’s just not enough words for it to develop.
At least the way I write.
The story I’m planning might very well just cover a few hours. 
I like a simple starting point like that. Even if it grows more than intended, hopefully not too much.
My big question right now is if I want to do dual pov or a single.
I’m leaning toward dual. We’ll see how it goes.
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You are what makes it interesting, remember that.
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It woukd have to preexist the story, to work well, or be physical before there’s emotions.
Yeah, probably. Romantic tension is probably best in a Novella.
A few hours over 20-40k? Interesting I could never do something as long as that over such a short period of time.
You could always try a few paragraphs in dual and a few in single and see which works better.
I am also thinking of just doing a memoir-style story about one of my characters and the rise of his empire. But breaking it up into parts.
I am thinking of a character’s memoir, writing it loosely. Keeping the important points, not everything. Starting it when Shade is 16-17 and selling weed in school.
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it really was! SO MANY people cut, it was so weird
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I would have expected that cut down by the 8K range. They were treating it like a pitch to an agent. lol
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So, my brain again finds 8 plausible. I’m not stressing on 8. By experience, I’ll get 4-5 done, but I don’t mind testing all 8 to the 2K if I’ve got them firm.
Start to #97:
In a Workhouse in London there lived a girl. It was a dirty, dark brick structure, filled with the ends of frayed rope and cordage with a tarry smell. Also: dry, crowded, with hardly a place to rest and much less to eat. It was a Victorian Poorhouse, and that meant work.
Can you tell what story this emulates?
But I’ve got 2 old ideas that would work for:
3&12 and 47&52.
8&100, 21&55, 77, 81&84, 97, 99 would be original thoughts.
I’m not going to go as hard as last time, I swear. lmao
And then I’ve got this to go through.
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Yeah, that was weird to me. Almost everyone gets through round one lol.
… And mine is fried with one
That’s one way to get it done.
Oliver Twist? Very Victorian, even without you mentioning it.
You’re just an idea machine 
You sure about that?
I’m 1.5k into mine. It’s very random.
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I absolutely am. I won’t deny that whatsoever. The difference is these suckers don’t nag me.
But no, not Oliver Twist.
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Only you would dare to one-up yourself.
Good luck.
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Do you think I could combine all these prompts in one story?
The prompts I’m considering are: #1, #12, #13, #20, #53, #60, #72 and #88.
If they’re too many, I’ll have to scale down on some…
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Yeah, I decided to let them go. I don’t care anymore, but Igor and Shade have stayed so I will roll with that. I just put all of my ideas down now, and come back to them if I wanna. If not, I will delete them.
Hmmm…
I think that’s a lot for 20-40k words.
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