Saturday, April 17, 2010

Can anyone help me with a story plot?

Directed towards a young-adult audience, and preferably not the typical girl-meets-guy-in-high-school type. I live for the supernatural, the thriller/action/adventures, and subtle fantasy/sci-fi.





To get a hint at my style, some of my favorite books include the following: Harry Potter by JK Rowling, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, 1984 by George Orwell, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, Beauty (A rendition of Beauty and the Beast) by Robin McKinley, The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and The Giver by Lois Lowry.





I've played around with plots involving genetic experimentation, a post apocalyptic world, doomed love, magic, vampires, werewolves, you name it...but they all seem to fall short and I end up with six pages of meaningless text.





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Can anyone help me with a story plot?
I think you may be looking to hard. The basic plot would be just that: basic. It's the complications that make the book somewhat interesting and the character growth and development (which you say you're good at)that keep people reading. Even something as trite as boy-meets-girl, though used fairly often, can still be enthralling when throwing in the complications i.e. kidnap victim of cult (mad scientist, limb-eating monster, etc), doomed planet, or even the return of magic. If you are good at character development, then the rest should take care of itself when you think "What could happen that would make the situation more difficult for the protagonist?"
Reply:Sorry. If you have to go to this length to get an idea for a story, I find it hard to believe you are destined to write fiction. Try writing something non-fiction, and see if that does not limber up the brain. Ideas are all around you when you get in the right frame of mind.





If it's any comfort to you, I'm no good at coming up with fictional plots, either.
Reply:Hmm, i used biblical stories for my texts (inspired), and before i write, i usally draw my characters, and my characters do the writing for me,


im inspired by anime in the sense that they are able to create fantasy worlds
Reply:if you want to be a writer, then you have to come up with your own ideas. Everyone has an imagination, so think about it. Just daydream, come up with weird scenerios, and just write. Write about just everything you think about.
Reply:yes i have many just email me
Reply:Write down scary situations that have happened to you or almost happened to you during a typical day. Combine with effects like light going out, power outage, passing out, sleep deprivation, mean teachers, machines that fall apart, lack of information, fear of new experience. Add characters with stereotype names, and add humor. Throw in breakdown with normal solution to things like: door locked, exit blocked, you can't speak or see, can't be heard or seen, telephone battery dead, hands tied, etc, and put them on slips of paper in different piles. Draw slips from different piles till you reach your story. Don't forget: turn in plot, the aliens arrive, the aliens get blown up, magic saves the day, time warp, time goes backward, wake up. Have fun.
Reply:i want royalties dammit! now write one about a peglegged, deaf dumb ,blind, albino ,harelipped ,midget,with one arm named hossenphepper jinglefarts the third
Reply:Take a microscopic parasite and how it lives and turn it into a whole different thing. Like futuristic mutant bad guys.
Reply:Personally, something about a child in foster care would be lovely I think. Perhaps a 15-year-old who is shifted around a lot. Maybe she could find she has a clone in the town she has been moved to. That might be interesting..

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