Doing more of my take on writing a book this month. I'll get back to something else later. Stories are made of parts woven together. Making them work can be easy or hard but it's also fun to dream up a world and people it. Bty world I mean whether your story is contemporary, his torical, fantasy or some other genre, each world is somewhat different from the realitty of the time period. The writer can choose the elements he or she wished to be part of the story.
Plot for me is where the story begins. I always have a series of steps designed to bring the story to the end. Someone once told me or i read it somewhere that a plot is just a plan. I look on it as a road map taking me from the beginning through the middle to the end. When designing the plot, I also am creating the world in which my characters dwell. Some writers through in the political events surrounding the characters. Sometimes I do this and sometimes not. This is the writer's choice.
Characters and here I often depend on Astrology for giving my characters traits and depths. Sometimes the character arrives fully developed during the time I spend at night telling myself a story. There is usually a hero, a heroine and a villain. The villain might not be really a bad one but always one whose goals are different from the other characters. There are usually secondary chaaracters who have a role to play in the story. I try not to make them cardboard characters but give them a bit of life. In doing this sometimes they then want their own story. I spend time looking at their view of the world of their existance.
Setting - This is the world in which the characters exist bu it's also the individual places they visit. The weather always plays a part. The book I'm working on now has seasons that give character to the book. It's an interesting bit of fun. I often forget in the rough draft to put my characters in any setting. Then I must go back and develop their world.
Goals are another part of developing the story. Each character, even the secondary ones have goals. I try to keep the secondary character's goals geared to one of the main characters. Developing this area often makes me scratch my head. She wnats a man. He hs no desire to marry. These general ideas have to be boosted and changed to the why and the how of the story.
Motimes - This area goes into the characters backgrounds. This is also an area of why does he or she want a particular something. The motive needs to be clear in my mind as I work on the story.
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