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 Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:50 pm
If you were (or are) to write a book, how would you do it? I'm curious as to how many different ways a good book or story can be put together. It varies for me. Usually I just write scenes as they come into my head, and then I string them together until it makes a necklace of a good story. Then I kind of go through it and make sure it flows-- I use the diagram/graph/thing my teacher went over in English class. Its goes something like Exposition (Intro) --> Rising Action (Longest part of the story, if I remember correctly.) ---> Climax (The big fight/change!) ---> Falling Action ---> Resolution(? ...I can't remember the exact word. I'll check later.) Or depending on how long the piece of writing is, I may come up with an idea and write a quick idea/summary of the subject I have in mind, then go in and fill in details later. For what I've been working on lately, I've been alternating between the two. I have the main idea written, but I'm also writing the scenes as they pop into my mind and adding details here and there as I go on.
Soo, how do you other people put together a story? I'm curious! 3nodding
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:59 pm
I go all over the place, lol. I usually start with a scene or idea that I have in my head and if it starts really going somewhere I find I get obsessed with it and think about it all the time. And I start an outline with each chapter and general things I want to happen in those chapters and I write out scenes as they come into my head and then I string them together, sometimes scrap scenes altogether.
If I'm blanking one day or just seem unable to write, I focus on writing the character bios for my characters or doing 'interviews' with them, where I actually write it out in prose and not just a list of questions that I answer as the character.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 1:28 pm
I kinda just make it up as I go, but I make all the characters before hand. Usually the main character is kind of a shadow of myself and some of the secondary characters are based on my friends, and sometimes enemies. When I get bored I usually end up thinking about my stories and when I think it's a good Idea I run and grab my notebook and write it down so I can use it later. razz
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:55 pm
epical awesome I kinda just make it up as I go, but I make all the characters before hand. Usually the main character is kind of a shadow of myself and some of the secondary characters are based on my friends, and sometimes enemies. When I get bored I usually end up thinking about my stories and when I think it's a good Idea I run and grab my notebook and write it down so I can use it later. razz its almost the same for me with the charakters, they are most of the time a shadow of myself too, or friends or enemies^^ haha, i like you, you are like ma lil brother =)
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 3:52 am
The way I write is sometimes I will come up with an idea and a scene that goes along with it soon after or maybe the scene will come first and I'll form an idea around that. After I've got an idea and a scene, I usually come up with the main characters and their families. Then, I hop around, writing major events that will occur all throughout the novel. After I've exhausted my main events, I try to come fill in the holes. It may not be the most efficient way of writing a novel, but it works for me (most of the time). As for characters, the main character is usually a shadow of what I wish I was and the others may be a mix of people I've met in real life and people I've met in books.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 12:36 pm
Seems like a lot of people's characters in their stories reflect either themselves or people they know. It's the same for me, pretty much too. I also get ideas for characters or aspect of characters from other books that I have read.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:28 pm
Beauty_Neko epical awesome I kinda just make it up as I go, but I make all the characters before hand. Usually the main character is kind of a shadow of myself and some of the secondary characters are based on my friends, and sometimes enemies. When I get bored I usually end up thinking about my stories and when I think it's a good Idea I run and grab my notebook and write it down so I can use it later. razz its almost the same for me with the charakters, they are most of the time a shadow of myself too, or friends or enemies^^ haha, i like you, you are like ma lil brother =) Thanks I think, let's just hope your nothing like my real big sister razz
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:43 am
epical awesome Beauty_Neko epical awesome I kinda just make it up as I go, but I make all the characters before hand. Usually the main character is kind of a shadow of myself and some of the secondary characters are based on my friends, and sometimes enemies. When I get bored I usually end up thinking about my stories and when I think it's a good Idea I run and grab my notebook and write it down so I can use it later. razz its almost the same for me with the charakters, they are most of the time a shadow of myself too, or friends or enemies^^ haha, i like you, you are like ma lil brother =) Thanks I think, let's just hope your nothing like my real big sister razz why? razz is she that horrible?
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:25 pm
Beauty_Neko epical awesome Beauty_Neko epical awesome I kinda just make it up as I go, but I make all the characters before hand. Usually the main character is kind of a shadow of myself and some of the secondary characters are based on my friends, and sometimes enemies. When I get bored I usually end up thinking about my stories and when I think it's a good Idea I run and grab my notebook and write it down so I can use it later. razz its almost the same for me with the charakters, they are most of the time a shadow of myself too, or friends or enemies^^ haha, i like you, you are like ma lil brother =) Thanks I think, let's just hope your nothing like my real big sister razz why? razz is she that horrible? Yes she is!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:45 pm
I often have a general idea of how I want the general flow of the story to go and I piece it together from there
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 2:57 pm
I just think over certain scenes that would come to my head, then build off of it, change some things, add, maybe delete some things. Then I would get it on paper or my computer or something, then squeeze it into my story somewhere. Sadly, I've only really been thinking about my characters' pasts. rofl
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 4:30 pm
Personally, it really depends. Two of my stories sort of just came to me one night...yet I'm plotting them out differently.
My first one I'm considering scrapping because I don't know quite where to go with it. I might just put it up here, except for the fact that it's long >< But if anyone would like to look at it for giggles, I can either share it on box (I think that's what it's called) or do e-mail. It really is way too long to put on here.
For this one, though, I plotted out some of the conversations on paper and then while putting it on the computer, I sort of fit the scene around the dialogue.
The second one just sort of came to me while on the computer (I always get story ideas when playing the Sims). I like this one because it feels so natural and it actually flows.
The third one I'm writing I originally had everything written out...then it got thrown away.
Then, I started writing it down and putting it into a binder...I even have character sheets, definition sheets...I'm going to also see if I can get a really good artist friend to help me see my characters. I even wrote my first chapter already and had it critiqued.
I hope this satisfied your curiosity ^^
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:44 pm
I do my stories based on experience.
I.E: My Character, Connor Erebus is apparently my Doopleganger and he is the response to Politics, History, and everything going on in my life. And usually I watch shows and kind of use that for my story ideas. CSI is my favorite because I need the conflict of criminals in my MotD. And I usually do Rps and based them in my story as well.
So techincally..I go by experience and my opinions of everything around me.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:28 pm
With my stories everything is made up as I go along. I'll type up the story, sorta rushed, just to get down the major events and then I'll go back through, read it and delete/flesh out things that need it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:53 pm
I normally just have an idea pop into my head (normally before I fall asleep too) I jot it down, then begin writing the story and let it flow from my finger tips.I never really plan, I find it pointless and when the story comes to a close I end up going back an editing the story to hint towards information divulged somwhere later on in the story! Planning just . . . doesn't appeal to me. I write as the story comes in my head!
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