Hmmm

[ysobel]

I have a strange desire to do

A) a micro version of MaNoWriMo

(like, not even the 30k mini version, but, like. Average of 100 words/day as a primary goal -- yes, that's only 3000 in the month, and I used to be able to do that in a day, but that's more fiction than I've written all year -- with 10k as a secondary goal (333) and 30k as a tertiary (1k/day). Or maybe 10k as the primary goal? I don't know.)

B) that is a remix of Disney beauty and the beast

(not with lyrics and shit, and I could just do a regular batb retelling, but I kind of want to take the Disney specific stuff, gaston and the west wing and the specific castle staff, and play with it and make it better. A few elements of the live version but mostly based on the animated one.)

(which is for one thing ridiculous because Disney version, and for another thing cheating for nano because pre-existing story, and for a third feels lazy and cop-out-ish and why would anyone read a 10k-word retelling of a fucking Disney movie, and all the rest of the bullshit that my inner critic likes to dump in my head whenever I want to do something)

I definitely don't want to nano the disabled-beauty/autistic?-beast story-of-my-heart, because it's too important for Nani treat,net, and I need something that means less. But.

Stupid idea? Good idea? Shut up and go back to crocheting?

Comments

[syderia]

Here by way of the network page.

The Disney verson of Beauty and the Beast is itself a retelling, and I personally think that these are always interesting because we all see different things that matter in the tale.
Also, that you want to write it is sufficient reason to do so.


mini_wrimo might be helpful (I just found it this year, so.)

[ysobel]

Thank you! That comm is perfect :D

[jennaria]

I would totally read that, just saying.

[alexseanchai]

I'd read that :)

[ephemera]

A) writing is good, and b) why not? Is playing ith things and making them better not the very basis of fic?

[krait]

A) 3,000 words is more than I've written all year, too, so it sounds good to me! I may even have to borrow that idea...

B) Why not? I thought lots of people did fanfic for NaNo, even if it's not the "technical" purpose for it! My RL friend has done a NaNo fic for three year running, at least!

Also, as others have said, The Disney Version is already a retelling (hence that "version") so they don't have a leg to stand on if somebody else decides to do one, too.