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I'm currently in the middle of planning out a story, and I need a little help with the structure of how to write it. If need be, I can write out a better summary for it. It's not that I'm trying to keep it a secret or whatever, I just don't have a lot of it planned out and out of my head yet.

Basically it'll be more of a fantasy/horror story. There's three or four main groups I want to focus on, who's lives are intertwined and basically preparing for a war between each other.

The main part I'm struggling with is how to focus on each individual group. There's two that I know I can easily switch between, and if need be I would focus on just them seeing as they're the key characters to the story. I also wanted to add something like a common enemy, that may or may not help one group out, depending on how things go in my imagination. Anyways, I wanted to add them separately, like a few chapters jump to this group, but I wasn't sure if it would make the story seem to jumpy or confusing, but at the same time I don't want it to be like these people came out of nowhere.

I hope this makes some sense. C:

Heh, yeahhh that might help a little. Sorry I was rather vague. I was trying to type all this up while being social with my flatmates.

I was planning on basically the "groups" being representatives of both a particular race and side, meaning there's a "group" of good witches vs bad as well as humans overall. It's one of those things that looked good in my head, but anyone outside of it would be confused.

Overall I wanted the story to focus on two fractions equally. I mainly want to play with the characters and show both sides of them, so say there's a warlock character that may seem like a "good" guy, but in particular scenes is the antagonist or whatever. I mainly wanted to add in some of your common human hunters, like every other fantasy-ish story would have as the protagonists, but have them on the side. Okay let's see if I can explain this better. Bare with me, I'm half conscious at the moment.

Now I haven't seen every movie out there, but for what I can collect from "fantasy" movies (and by fantasy I mean anything that involves a race other than what you commonly find on earth) with a horror twist, they focus on humans. The main characters in some way, shape, or form are trying to save the human race. If there's humans involved, they are normally hunters. In my story, I want to add this idea of hunters, but in a different light. I don't want them to be viewed as antagonists, but I would like the focus to be more on the others - the witches, vampires, merfolk, and so on- that they fight. My main issue is how to write the perspective of the humans. Would it be too confusing to be going back and forth between the humans and whoever else the story focuses on, or should they be occasionally mentioned when needed? Although now as I type this out, it's making more sense to go back and somewhat highlight events for them, because I do not plan for the characters to be important enough to grow substantially in the story