Hello I’m maybe going to start doing this as a mini series on here because I just like to spew thoughts for everyone to see and If I'm going to do that I would rather my words help someone who likes to do the same thing as me.
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Let me make some disclaimers before I start rambling, this advice shouldn’t be strictly followed like a bible. Don’t take my word as absolute because most of what I’m going to advise is really only up to you to follow and consider. There are plenty of ways to make stories and whatever is more comfortable to you is what you should follow.
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Without further ado, here we go.
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I’m gonna start at the basic building blocks, coming up with your story. Whenever you have that golden idea that you think will make for an excellent story you need a solid foundation to start. I will advise that you try to flesh out your idea first. Make a basic outline of what you want to include.
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Don’t go in immediately writing the first chapter, then you’ll screw yourself over. One of the main reasons that there are inconsistencies in stories is that they’re being created as the author goes from chapter to chapter with no general outline to any of it. Not saying it’s impossible to have a consistent story making it up on the spot, but it’s really easy to make those errors and not correct them on release.
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Plot out the main storyline, characters you want to appear, arcs you want your characters to go through. These don’t need to be hyper detailed, it doesn’t have to be to have a solid foundation. Plus it helps you expand on those general ideas in the future, because once you start it’s a long commitment that you are unknowingly agreeing to.
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Organize all this information in a Google Doc, on paper, or use a notepad. Personally I use Obsidian MD to jot down all my notes. Now, I guess your first question is, “What if I want to diverge from my original idea?” It’s totally fine to be separate from your main idea, trust me you’ll fire through concepts way faster than you can type. But you’ll get there later down the road, we’re solely focusing on beginning a story.
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Once you’ve gathered all of the essential information it’s now the time to start planning your chapters, episodes, or movie (really depends on what type of format you want to present your story.) If you’re writing a book it’s very vital to know what events you want to portray in every chapter. Then you’ll have it planted in your brain on where a chapter will end and what it contains.
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Don’t get hung up on plotting out specific details on your outline, like lines of dialogue. Those will come to you as you start writing the chapter. Details will always come later, if you ever want to change it there’s always a reason to revise and redraft, it may get tiring but it’s hard work that’ll pay off.
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Lastly I do want to state that all of this may seem a lot, especially if you’re just starting out and finally writing your first story. Once you get in the hang of things and the passion starts pumping through you, it’ll all fit neatly together like a neat little puzzle.
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Trust me when I say I wish I had this attitude when I started. OVERPOPULAS isn’t the first story I’ve written but it contains a lot of errors that I regret right now. Started writing before my brain could think what’ll come next and it ended with chapters being very short and characters changing halfway through when I had a solid idea.
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In the future when I’ve completed writing the first part of my stories, I’m going to rewrite all of them. All of this is just a first draft which just seems unreal to me but it also is unreal that I’ve been consistently writing four different stories, especially at my age. My passion and ambition really got me into a mess, but I’m committed to the very end.
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If you’ve sat and read through all of this I bless you, but also want to leave you off with this. I believe you can do it. No matter if it takes years and years to build up your story, you can do it. Realizing your creative vision takes a lot of time and passion, truly sacrificing your mind and displaying it for all to see.
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Little life update I successfully moved from a house into an apartment. It’s not the best but it’s livable. So during that time fully moving in it’s been tough sitting down and writing but now since I have a more optimal work space I can actually lock myself up in my room and slave away at my keyboard, while replaying the fallout games.
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I hope you all have a great day and of course if you want to continue this discussion or add to the advice, or you just have a general question. Just leave a comment below, trust me I’ll see it and respond when possible.
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