yooooo, I'm doing ext 2 and im so shook because my situation is so similar to yours. I was originally crafting this weird historical fiction about the three waves with like a short story for each; it was bad and I hated it, but I only had 10 units so I couldn't drop. Anyway, so maybe at the start of March I was like nup I'm having a bad time and against like all advice I restarted. My current project is a SATIRICAL FEMINISM narrative, critiquing the hypocrisies of third wave feminism... is that where you were going with yours? If so what are the odddds.
But yeah, my school and teacher can sometimes be... lets say questionable, but she did warn of cliched representations of feminism because it's so prevalent in many ext 2 works. But, to be fair we don't have too much time and you must really like the idea to want to scrap you current work. I say go for it.
HAHAHA THATS CRAAZY -- WHAT ARE THE ODDS!!?
Im thinking of doing a satire of the lack of female representation in history. im going to personify the "lost female voice" as a literal prisoner in jail, who tells stories about women like rosalind franklin (she took a photo of dna but it was stolen by these other dudes who took credit for it) and maybeeee 4 other women whose voices have been muffled unfairly. sorta like creatively written case studies .
in terms of changing topics a few months in -- at least we have a clearer idea of what were doing now right? on the one hand i have sooo many ragrets spending soooo much time working on my idea during like the 6 week holidays and term 1, of course, as well as the fact that im just tossing most of my idea out the window (im keeping some excerpts here and there but like 80% G O N E) .buttttt on the other hand i feel a lot more hopeful and motivated to pursue this idea rather than the other because its so much clearer in terms of plot and my idea and purpose--plus feminism has a lot of hella good academia on a wide range of its subtopics which is handy as well. i wish i chose to go down this avenue a little earlier but hey, the past is the past and i can only look to the future now. its a lot clearer and hopefully i spend less time "creatively constipated" as i did before.
also -- third wave feminism seems like an awesome topic for ext 2. dont know a lot about it but i know thats relevant to todays 21st century society which is good stuff for reflection statements
wishing you lotsa luck with it my fellow feminist