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In light of the prompt, I like Kate’s most recent idea, even though there have been so many good points raised. Remember, we’re going for a scene, which doesn’t need to include a full arc or plot sequence, just needs to show something about our character.

The only thing about being uncertain about the fire pixie is that if we want the kid’s voice to stand out, we either need to write it in first person or third person deep from the kid’s personal view, which means that we’ll have to play it very carefully to hide the pixie’s existence.

All that aside, what if we merged the “Is the fire pixie real?” with a smart, prodigy kid (because, yes, I think being a kid with so much mental capacity but limited by actual experience could be really, really fun, so long as we can convince our readers that he’s in fact five years old). We could have someone offer him this top-notch school because he’s a prodigy, but he insists in the fire pixie and keeping his chimneysweep profession and ends up confusing all the adults.

I don’t know. Everyone’s take on the storyline has so many different details, I feel like we should sort those out if at all possible. Or maybe we decide on a general plot line and leave the first writer to flesh the rest out.

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