For the most part, it's characters and worlds that I have, and maybe there's a vague plot idea in there somewhere, but the specifics of the plot are probably the very last thing I come up with.
Yes! This is me exactly!
I think that, for me, a story begins as a random series of stuff happening revolving around a very vague concept, that concept mostly based on a certain desire to write a certain something. For example, there was a story I thought up last month that basically started out as my desire to write a fantasy set in a western setting and with a character partially covered in magic-related tattoos. I figured out both the character and the world in a matter of days. But the actual plot? Yeah, still mostly working that part out (I do have a plot, but it's still pretty sketchy at best). A story I'm currently working on started out as a desire to do something with a dragon rider in it, but not in a typical fantasy setting. And I'm only now starting to piece an actual plot together.
Plots seem to come in their own due time, and mostly when I have both the characters and the world figured out enough for A) character motivation and B) villain motivation or B2) some sort of catastrophe or conflict. I have yet for a story to start off in my head as "so there was this war..." Instead it usually starts off as "so there was this soldier..."
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Date: 2012-03-08 01:44 am (UTC)From:Yes! This is me exactly!
I think that, for me, a story begins as a random series of stuff happening revolving around a very vague concept, that concept mostly based on a certain desire to write a certain something. For example, there was a story I thought up last month that basically started out as my desire to write a fantasy set in a western setting and with a character partially covered in magic-related tattoos. I figured out both the character and the world in a matter of days. But the actual plot? Yeah, still mostly working that part out (I do have a plot, but it's still pretty sketchy at best). A story I'm currently working on started out as a desire to do something with a dragon rider in it, but not in a typical fantasy setting. And I'm only now starting to piece an actual plot together.
Plots seem to come in their own due time, and mostly when I have both the characters and the world figured out enough for A) character motivation and B) villain motivation or B2) some sort of catastrophe or conflict. I have yet for a story to start off in my head as "so there was this war..." Instead it usually starts off as "so there was this soldier..."