it would make a really good tv series tbh

Yep. Go for it. LOL

I have more worlds in my slush piles than I could ever write.

I feel that

I just get vague concepts and don't know how to create stories in them

I get full concepts, but I'm invested in my original worlds, and honestly, the Time Corps universe will never be fully written by me.

Let alone all the other fun things I've come up with. I just won't live long enough.

for instance, tonight I thought up a scene where vague teenage clown boy takes the newcomer main character clown girl out away from the rest of the circus and has her close here eyes. They run up a grassy hill and look over the city. All done before, until he starts pulling magic. It would happen at the end of act one or somewhere in act two, right before something bad happens

I don't plan on giving them full facepaint so it's not quite as strange as it sounds

that would be saved for a climactic battle

as dumb as that sounds

What if the face paint is magic, protection from demons?

I'm thinking he pulls one of those weird "half way through the musical musical sequence" sequences where something is basically just visual fodder for ten minutes

Not just a costume or disguise, but practical?

that's actually ingenious

dude that would actually work really well

at first I thought of it as some form of battle paint and steeped in tradition but that makes a lot more sense

Make it personal. The reason no clown ever uses another's makeup pattern is because it will only work for one at a time.

it would be a deal where their acts cast spells as well so that makes even more sense

that's even more ingenious oh my gosh

Run with it.

will do

thank you. That's actually got me sparked up to try and write some of it

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I wonder if I should add Tarble to the story....

NAH

there was a quote floating around about writers flip flopping between narcissism/pretentiousness and self hatred constantly and I honesty really relate with whatever quote it was