Any Ideas?

@kyronthearcanin

Hey! Here’s the deal….I’m something of a plotter and simultaneously a panster, but I typically lean more toward the plotting side. (To back myself up, I have legitimately finished an entire co-written novel, several successful short stories, and a novella. I’m not saying that to brag, just proving that I do finish projects XD)

I know it’s hard when you get caught up in the excitement of a new story to just start writing and not take the time to think through the ins and outs of how the story will play out! What I’ve found helpful is to take all of the creativity that happens at the beginning of the story and write it all down. Don’t start writing the story yet, just throw down everything you have into a random notebook or a random doc on your computer. Make yourself take a couple of days just to mull over the characters/setting/etc. in your head before you start your project. (Another thing that can really help is thinking about your MC’s greatest fear, their deepest longing, their best strength and worst weakness. You can also jot down things like what theme you hope to express in the book, etc.) So once you have this really messy document with all the important stuff after a couple of days with all your ideas, start a new page and make a general outline of what you want the story to look like. Then…start writing! If your outline goes out the window when you start, who cares? You can change it whenever you want. Just make sure that you stick to the big themes and progressions you imagined in the beginning.

I don’t know if this will be helpful to you at all, but it’s what has worked for me in the past. Hope it’s helpful!!

@kyronthearcanin

Ok, so I’m the girl with a plan lol, I spent two years (I know, I’m too much of a planner 😂) planning and world building, character development and working out kinks. I finally started writing on… Friday. Finally lol. So, I have to agree with @landric, take time to work out the kinks and plotholes, and to plan. Even if it’s just a rough outline, it’ll help a lot I bet.

Ofc, this may not work for you, everyone is different. But I hope it helps 🙂

@kyronthearcanin Well….

I can’t plot for the life of me. If I plot any more than a vague outline, I lose interest.

Sooooo I jump straight into it with only a simple idea of what I want to do. That gets me into trouble sometimes.

But here are some helpful things!

If you need to, write out of order. I do this with series but not individual books. You can always redraft if something in a previous story changes.

If you get a random perfect idea, write it down somewhere! That’s worked for me. It doesn’t have to be a full on-story–it could be just a “(character name) does (something) at this point in the story” or “what if (character) was actually working for this character?”

@kyronthearcanin Ok!

Oh, BTW I might’ve asked you this before but is your username a character in the story?

@kyronthearcanin Kyron and Rina are related? Or maybe he’s the leader of the arcanin?

Oh, and the meaning of Solfyre is cool!

@kyronthearcanin Cool! Is he alive or dead? Does he play any other role in the story?

@kyronthearcanin Awesome!!! He sounds really cool.