| User | BigDreams |
| Topic | Plot ideas |
| Message | I haven’t written in ages, and would like to try another novel, maybe try and get it published this time (the other ones I have written were more for me to gain experience). However I am having a very hard time decided what I want to write about. I’m not looking to steal any ideas, but just to get my mind working alittle more. What is something you want to read about?
Do I want to write about a beautiful mustang filly abandoned by her herd? The impact of poverty on a young, deformed boy living on the streets? Or maybe the hard, but rewarding life of the realms youngest knight, and first horse mage? Don’t think about novels you have read in the past, but think about something you want to read in the future. If there a certain genre you enjoy more? Is there a unique personality or quirk you want in a character? You are walking down the middle aisle of your favourite bookstore. As you push through the crowds, something catches your eye. You turn around to see the new display of a novel released only two days prior. Curios, you pick up one of the books and flip it over. As you read, you think to yourself ’could this be a more intresting book?’ What did YOU read on the back? |
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| User | qwicksilfer | 2008-06-16 | |
| Subject | plot |
| Message | What helps me when I am stuck on a plot is to make the character. Decide what he or she is like, what this character needs/wants/looses, and go from there. Some of my best stories come from the person rather than the circumstance. That way you also are original, because you’re creating a whole story around the person you create. The best way I have found to then incorporate the character into a plot is to find the protagonist and antagonist, find what gets them together (catalyst) and what tears them apart (conflict). I dunno... always works for me :-) |
| User | leolibbyII | 2008-05-11 | |
| Subject | Idea |
| Message | Take the most difficult descision you have made, then recast it, change it around anyway you wish. |
| User | BigDreams | 2008-05-09 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I just thru those out there as ideas off the top of my head. I really have no interest in writing something soley based on horses, simply because they are a big part of my life, so I’d like to beable to come home and get into a whole new world, not come home to the same thing if that makes since.
Thanks for the tips |
| User | BeautifulSoul | 2008-05-09 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | ok, abandon the filly idea. Not very interesting unless you’re looking for fans from twelve-year-old girls. As for the boy, that would work, but do not make him deformed. Allow him to be poor and then rise up, not suffer his wole life. The kinight one owuld be all right, if you actually worked with it. I like a knight story the same as anyone, but nothing is worse than a bad writer trying to make something good. |