What I Do When I Can't Come Up With Anything To Write About
- I find new angles to look at objects
- The Object from a certain angle gives an Idea
- I come up with a universe for my story (or our world and I would come up with a location of where my story takes place)
- I pick two Protagonists so that I can choose which perspective to write (or maybe it is omniscient third person view of focusing on both characters equally)
- I write my protagonist(s)'s descriptions (how they look, how they act, how they think)
- I give a couple scenarios that my character may go through (I make sure I know my character even before I decide the plot)
- I like drawing sketches of my characters so this is where I can add in a couple more characters that will be ideal for the story
- I choose now finally the names for the charaters (sometimes I leave a few out because I can't think of a name so I fill that character in later)
- Then I pick a plot using what I like to call the genetic back bone
- [wo]man vs. nature
- [wo]man vs. [wo]man
- [wo]man vs. the environment
- [wo]man vs. machines/technology
- [wo]man vs. the supernatural
- [wo]man vs. self
- [wo]man vs. god/religion
- These genetic backbones become inhanced, I think a bit more in terms of what my universe is like (at this point I already know my universe fully. I just haven't chosen an actual plot yet)
- Let's say I choose example number 1: [wo]man vs nature (when it says [wo]man it means a person/human being)
- Who is my character (I should know by now); what is the nature he/she has to overcome?
- I should know my character's weaknesses and strengths; does he/she get help from someone or maybe something, or it could be he/she finds it out for him/herself.
- Now I like to start with writing keypoints for the introduction, climax, and resolution.
- Then I make a story line for my plot, or a time line. I fill in between the intro, climax, and resolution by writing chapter headlines
- By now I know what chapters I want in my story and if it is neccessary, I can always add more chapters.
- Now I write each chapter with everything I want in it (scene description, dialog, action descriptions)
- Then I read through the chapter I finished and work on anything misspelled or gramatically wrong, then I repeat that process for every chapter
- Now I like to decide whether I want to make a sequal or not
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