Slem
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Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my prompt. I hope you find it intriguing.
Before I delve into explaining it, I kindly request that you ponder this scenario: You write a wondrous opening piece, putting all your linguistic and imaginative skills into it, and feel great satisfaction when reading what your hands have produced. Your partner does not fall behind and impresses you with a delightful opening piece of their own. All is going well until both of your characters meet each other, and it becomes awkward. You want your character to interact with the other character but don't want to control the other person's character. You also promised not to send one-liners at the beginning, so you end up spending a whole paragraph describing every move your character makes, what sets them apart, and being overall verbose to fill that paragraph. A few paragraphs later, both of you are burnt out.
This brings me to my idea where characters will interact but won't be around each other at the same time. To achieve that, I have a few ideas:
1. The dream: Perhaps my most unique idea. Each character lives in a different reality. It could be that one is in the real world and the other is in a fantasy world, or one is in the past and the other is in the present. The choices are limited only by your own imagination. These characters will live their lives separately, but each event a character experiences will somehow carry on to the other's life in a unique way. For example, if one character gets into a fight that deeply angers them and sustains a lip injury, the other person could either inexplicably become angry and have the same injury or get into a similar fight and sustain the same injury. Additionally, there could be dream sections where the characters meet in a room that the writers take turns imagining. The imagined areas could be anything, from a simple quaint sofa near a crackling fireplace to a strange reality filled with cogs and grandfather clocks, where characters can float from one to the other in an infinite space of red eyes. This is when both writers should be present in real life at the same time and make their characters engage in dialogue, so long as it remains consistent with their personalities. This may also serve as a means to progress the story.
2. The classic body swapping idea: Each writer will develop a character, their objectives, their life, and everything in-between. They will also create side characters of their own. The writers will then explain these personalities to each other out-of-character (OOC), and both of them will have control over the other's characters. The other writer will follow the same steps as well. Once the body swapping happens, each writer will have to interact with the other's characters and try to communicate with the other character after figuring out that they keep swapping back and forth. Good communication is imperative for this idea to work, and it almost feels like the writers themselves are switching their plots.
These are just a few of the ideas I came up with. They are more like frameworks than prompts, focusing on story design rather than the story itself. I have not yet discussed the genre or theme we're going to use, as I prefer to discuss it with my partner, whomever it may be. My only condition is that the person should be as literate as I am, if not more so. It's important to me that my partner is skilled at writing. I should also mention that I am a 26-year-old male who has found the best work chemistry with similarly aged females up to this point. If you are still interested, feel free to DM me!
Before I delve into explaining it, I kindly request that you ponder this scenario: You write a wondrous opening piece, putting all your linguistic and imaginative skills into it, and feel great satisfaction when reading what your hands have produced. Your partner does not fall behind and impresses you with a delightful opening piece of their own. All is going well until both of your characters meet each other, and it becomes awkward. You want your character to interact with the other character but don't want to control the other person's character. You also promised not to send one-liners at the beginning, so you end up spending a whole paragraph describing every move your character makes, what sets them apart, and being overall verbose to fill that paragraph. A few paragraphs later, both of you are burnt out.
This brings me to my idea where characters will interact but won't be around each other at the same time. To achieve that, I have a few ideas:
1. The dream: Perhaps my most unique idea. Each character lives in a different reality. It could be that one is in the real world and the other is in a fantasy world, or one is in the past and the other is in the present. The choices are limited only by your own imagination. These characters will live their lives separately, but each event a character experiences will somehow carry on to the other's life in a unique way. For example, if one character gets into a fight that deeply angers them and sustains a lip injury, the other person could either inexplicably become angry and have the same injury or get into a similar fight and sustain the same injury. Additionally, there could be dream sections where the characters meet in a room that the writers take turns imagining. The imagined areas could be anything, from a simple quaint sofa near a crackling fireplace to a strange reality filled with cogs and grandfather clocks, where characters can float from one to the other in an infinite space of red eyes. This is when both writers should be present in real life at the same time and make their characters engage in dialogue, so long as it remains consistent with their personalities. This may also serve as a means to progress the story.
2. The classic body swapping idea: Each writer will develop a character, their objectives, their life, and everything in-between. They will also create side characters of their own. The writers will then explain these personalities to each other out-of-character (OOC), and both of them will have control over the other's characters. The other writer will follow the same steps as well. Once the body swapping happens, each writer will have to interact with the other's characters and try to communicate with the other character after figuring out that they keep swapping back and forth. Good communication is imperative for this idea to work, and it almost feels like the writers themselves are switching their plots.
These are just a few of the ideas I came up with. They are more like frameworks than prompts, focusing on story design rather than the story itself. I have not yet discussed the genre or theme we're going to use, as I prefer to discuss it with my partner, whomever it may be. My only condition is that the person should be as literate as I am, if not more so. It's important to me that my partner is skilled at writing. I should also mention that I am a 26-year-old male who has found the best work chemistry with similarly aged females up to this point. If you are still interested, feel free to DM me!
