@golgaloth
How many characters does your novel have?
Good time to analyze. Here goes:
The web-novel is constrained by my toot length of 5,000 and the 31 total prompts to be written one chapter a day, each day of March. It's very sparse and exact of word; it has to be concise. It's at 11,300 words as of today. Even so, I have:
- Dozens and dozens of background characters, some named, some quantified as crowds.
- 17 speaking side characters, half as bit parts.
- 1 main character, who may be slightly sociopathic.
How textured is your world?
It's Mars. It is a character that's ferrous, ferric, and ferrosoferric in color (greenish, pale red, and slightly black), and both rocky and sandy. It's in the dome colors and the colors of the clothes. Mars is being colonized by EM Mars Corp, until it goes bankrupt. The E and M stands for what you think it does, and the silver rocket-like shuttles are misnomered starships. Earth is covered with fascist theocracies, and the MC, who lives in Chicago at a Lakeshore address, is a woman who's is told by a minister that her best choice for career, all that she's worthy of, is housewife and child bearer. She ends up building things on Mars, then destroying... [spoilers]
How many weird words do you use?
Depends on what you mean by weird. Regolith. Nisei (1st generation in Japanese). PainAway. Synth-silk. Vid and Vac.
Made up are Cargoon (a Martian cargo helicopter) and Shroom (fungus grown as building bricks).
I'm keeping the words mostly current vernacular despite maybe being 150 years in the future, but avoiding swear words and anachronisms. I will admit to using words and giving then extra meaning that can be figured out by context.
#RSMarsNeededWomen thread: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178
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