How did you devise your storyline and plot? Did you work to a template with ready-made characters and working chapter titles, or did you just write.
How did you devise your storyline and plot? Did you work to a template with ready-made characters and working chapter titles, or did you just write.
I dreamed my story and every character that I wanted in the story. At times it felt that I was part of the story.
I ended up writing an 80-page movie script at first but now I'm on course to actually making it either a short story or a novel.
My way was similar to Anthony's. I had an idea. I knew how I wanted to start and finish. It was the jumbly bits in between I had to sit and plan for.
But like I mentioned in previous posts, I've planned and planned before and it's always come out a little different.
But I like that.
Writing's not just a journey for the reader, but for the author, too.
My protagonist still surprises me. Even when I plan for her to do certain things, she ends up doing the complete opposite!
I'm on book 3 now and I'm following the plan a bit more stringently than I did for book 1 and 2, but it's already forming other little story arcs that I hadn't expected!
So much fun! :)
I don't know if it's unusual, but, for a long time, I had everything in my novel, except a real convincing plot. I knew what I wanted for the charachters, for the places, the mood of the story, and what I wanted to tell.
As soon as I had my plot (it happened all of a sudden, and it worked with every line of the story, as if all that scattered parts were awaiting for it) the chapters set in place by themselves in an order that seemed logical and evident to me. I just had to put the titles to shape it all.