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How to Create Realistic Characters (Without Putting Your Friends in Your Novel)
When I was twelve, I started writing my first “real” book (that is, a book that was over 50,000 words). It was about a girl and her group of middle school friends who somehow got transported to another realm and had to defeat a bad guy who had kidnapped another friend of theirs. It wasn’t good. There were many issues, but the most glaring was that the lead character was obviously based on myself, the friend characters were based on my views of my friends, and the villain was based off of another student I didn’t like very much. They say “write what you know”, but there are a lot…
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How to Come Up with Ideas
Do you want to write a book/tv show/video game/movie/play, but you don’t know what to write about? Fear not! I’m writing a short story series, and with every short story having a different plot (barring three two-part stories) I need to come up with a lot of plot ideas. Here’s just some of the ways that I figure out my next story or character. 1. Write everything down The first way to get the most out of creating ideas is to write every idea down when you have them, even if you don’t need them right away. Create a single ideas document or break it out into Setting Ideas versus…