I am currently co-outlining two novel projects and both feel a little autobiographical in nature to be honest (and from this, you can probably tell that I’ve put the thieving friends idea that came from ChatGPT on the back burner. Can’t say that it surprises me).
The project currently coming out slightly ahead is actually the mage mother and daughter project rather than the twin sisters one. And I have finally named my mother and daughter duo (the daughter with help from GPT because I was just drawing a blank).
Also, I realised that I haven’t actually talked about the premise for the mother & daughter story so here it is:
Set in a Chinese fantasy world, this story is about a mage daughter who wants to strike out in a new direction of magecraft coming into conflict with her protective traditionalist mother who is also a mage.
After Yao announced her decision for her research at the Mage Academy, her mother and her had a big argument because her mother expected her to submit something in alignment with their family’s staked realm, benefiting from her mother’s expertise. Even when Yao fought hard enough to get a temporary conditional agreement from her mother to not interfere, she got thrust into deeper waters by the lack of progress on her research and an unexpected gradual revelation of the mysterious family taboo that she had been curious about.
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