Write a Novel?

My mom thinks that a good way to change the public opinion about a certain group is to write a novel from the perspective of somebody in that group, to capture what their life is like, and how they think. But writing novels like that are hard for me. Would I just write about every day of that fictional characters life in a row? Or just write one day, then skip several days, or weeks, or months, or even years, to a different day? I have that same kind of problem when trying to write a book about school. Each day is very similar to the next. And how would I best capture how the person thinks? Would I write every thought the character thinks for the entire book? Or just the important ones? If I only wrote the main or most important thoughts, it would seem like the other thoughts weren't there, since they would never be written. I don't think I could write a novel of that sort, at least not for a few years. Anyways, for design class we are making a stop motion animation (which is why I have been making one), and I need to add more to the animation I made. I also have to reverse it. And I thought I found a way to do so, but apparently the animation is too large. And I can't re animate it because I deleted all the frames from my phone to save space. So how am I going to do this? Will I have to make an entire new animation? Will I have to redo all of those 160+ frames of work. I guess I will see.