I don’t think I actually figured out the plot for my first book until I’d rewritten it 6+ times.
Welcome to February! We have a bit of a change of pace this month. During this month and March, our questions come from our contributors. This week’s question comes from Jean Davis.
How does an story begin? We all start from some idea. Everyone starts from something different. So let’s find out what our authors do when they begin a story.
Question 14: When coming up with a new story, what comes first, the character or the plot?
Since I’m working on a (hopefully) long-running series, the characters come first, and the plots are often created by complications from what they’ve done before. Even in the beginning of this series though, it was rather firmly wrapped around a few well-defined characters, whom I’d been playing for a while either in online roleplaying chat or in MMORPGs. I always found playing the characters to be insanely useful, especially…
View original post 747 more words
The War of Memory Project 