How do you plan/start a book?!
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Re: How do you plan/start a book?!
It has always worked for me.
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Or when I have the idea, start writing. Stream of conscious-style about the idea. You'd be surprised at what comes out when that happens. Deeper details, characters, maybe another way to look at the story.
I also spend a lot of time looking at a lot of imagery to see what it conjures up. Looking at alternative fashion, Urb-ex photography, old Cold-War plane proto-types. Literally anything that gets the imagination running.
It's a bit of a 'Throwing things a t wall to see what sticks' approach. But it works for me.
NOTE: Most writing I do is comics-based, so this might not work as well for prose.
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So what I do is that I just write down the ideas, whenever they pop up in my mind. I can't even write them all in the same place - I have a lot of different papers and notebooks. Only then do I start dividing these idead into characters, places and events.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you don't need organization and structure for writing a book; but for me, it only works to organize it AFTER I have the ideas (scenes, fragments of a dialogue, a message, etc). I can't just start with a personality, because I am on the journey with my character, and his/her personality forms along the way, I don't predefine it. Same goes for the plot.
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Then I rewrite the story according to the event plan. This way, I can throw in foreshadowing and character development instances easily without having to add them in and try to smooth out the disturbances later.
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Never force yourself to write. Write when the idea comes to you. I usually end up scribbling notes everywhere
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If you've got characters made up, cool, use them for this as well but if not, write down the idea that seems to be the center of the story in the middle and then make lines out to the bubbles of the other ideas. They don't have to be in any order. once that's done, I would write a few notes for each one simple stuff like who it involves or where it happens or why. When that happens i can start thinking about what order it goes in or if it happens all at once, whatever. start drawing lines (in different colors) to what goes best with what. It's messy but, it usually helps me to get the chaotic part of the thought process out on paper so you can organize it how ever you like while not shuffling through your head. Hope that helped a little
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