The beginning of our stories is crucial. It’s the appetizer for the entire dish. If it’s not tasty, chances are the rest of the meal will have the same bland flavor.
And nobody wants to spend their time reading a bland blah story.
The beginning of your story must be engaging, intriguing, and packed with a punch.
BUT the first page, sentence or even word can be the most agonizing part of the writing process because there is so much riding on it.
But there’s no need to worry.
Relax and let these 3 methods aid you in starting your story so that the reader is hooked from page one.
#1 Start somewhere in the middle.
Though you might not know where to begin, or even how you want your story to end, you may have certain scenes already in your mind.
Start with that. Start with what you have in your mind and let the story unfold before you and them.
Don’t be afraid to start with what you have. Make your idea a short story first. You can expand on a short story later. Get it written down.
If it’s a great idea your mind will keep toying with it and take it further. If it is a dud, you will most likely forget about it or lose interest.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll write it down today. Forget about it for 3 years and pick it back up and write the next big seller. You just never know.
As you move forward with your story you’ll have a better idea of where to start. And as you mold your characters and thicken your plot, you just might get the inspiration you need for the perfect beginning.
Our stories are going to go through A LOT of editing before they are done, so don’t worry.
There will be many moments along the editing part where parts of the story get changed. And you can always go back and add or take away from the beginning.
Sometimes a story can take an unexpected turn and you decide to start the story in the middle and do flashbacks instead of starting where you thought was going to be your beginning.
The point here is don’t be afraid to start writing down your ideas and start writing the story because you are worried it won’t be good enough.
If you let that fear drive you, you’ll never write anything and rob yourself and the world of another good story.
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Though it may seem a little too binding, starting with the title can actually give you the freedom you need to start your story.
When you pick a title, it will give you the direction that you need to put the pen to the page.
Starting with your title in mind gives you a good heading for the journey of your story.
You know where you are and where you want to be so you can begin sailing.
And while you’re writing you can always have an epiphany and go back and revise the title.
If you didn’t go ahead and make a title at the start you would have to make something up at the end and you’ll have missed out on possible title inspiration along the way.
Another good reason to start with the title is that you’ll be starting with the end in mind.
In most projects, this is a wise system of thinking. Start with the end in mind.
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Though it may seem too obvious, sometimes the best way to start is the easiest way.
This is a very specific method, but it is a tried and true method.
Also, this method is simple and it’s a great way for anyone to start a story even if they end up chopping it out later.
It’s an easy and simple starting point for anyone writing a story.
By starting with an introduction you are introducing a main character and a major problem or question for your reader to be curious about.
For example:
“Hi. My name is Hayden, and I’m here to tell you my story.”
“Hi. I’m Ray, and I’m hiding a secret.”
“I’m Brett, and you won’t believe what I just overheard my teacher say. My life will never be the same again.”
Can you see how easy it was to give our character a name and instantly introduce a curious secret or an interesting life-changing idea?
If we are going to hook our reader we have to be interesting from page one or they’ll never make it to page two.
Don’t make starting a story harder than it has to be.
In conclusion:
remember, these methods are only to help you start the writing process.
You always have the power to rewrite, fix or evolve the story any way you please. So don’t let that first sentence get you down. Instead, go ahead and start, even if you don’t feel it’s the best.
Nothing is set in stone.
Get moving forward and give yourself more to work with than just the paralyzing question of “where to start?!?!”
We hope this short post helps you!
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Every story that’s ever been written has moods. Different than the tone, which is set by the author, the moods help set the feeling the reader gets from our story.
The moods of our story can ebb and flow as the plot evolves and our characters develop into who we want them to be for the occasion.
As you are writing your story, carefully consider the way you want your readers to feel during each scene.
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Will they feel it because the mood is set well in a natural way?
Setting the mood is like setting the mood in a room.
A house has many rooms and each room can have its own personal mood.
If we dim the lights and let in natural light and paint the room a light color and set up comfy sofas in the room it might have an uplifting mood.
If we take the exact same room but cover up the windows, paint the room black, throw in a strobe light, some black lights and a bunch of black light glow objects with some bass beats it’ll change the mood for that room dramatically.
Stories are much like houses and chapters are much like rooms.
If you have a chapter with a funeral in it you have most likely created a somber or inquisitive mood for that chapter.
If the chapter has a celebration party from a hard-fought win with no casualties then the mood is more relieved, upbeat, and happy.
Some moods are easy to make and some take more complex thinking to put our reader into the emotions we want them to feel at any given moment.
Use the setting to help set the mood you want them to feel.
We hope this quick list will help spark your creativity for your writing.
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It’s easy to write and even easier to make simple common writing mistakes while you’re writing. Creating checklists is a good way to make our musings effective and efficient.
Writing is fun but sometimes it can be daunting to know where to start.
Making a checklist can be useful.
Use this checklist to help think through fictional characters you are writing.
When writing fictional characters it’s easy to get lost and end up making similar writing mistakes as other authors that didn’t do as well with characterization.
Use this checklist to watch for some common yet potentially grievous writing mistakes.
Writing Mistakes to Watch Out For:
1. Stereotypical
Writing mistakes come in all shapes and sizes and writing a stereotypical character is one of them.
It’s easy to say “write original characters” but to actually do it can be tough.
So many characters exist and it is hard to break the mold.
To avoid writing stereotypical characters think about who your character is, if you can think of five other famous fictional characters just like them you may be in the stereotypical realm.
Maybe don’t ditch the character altogether at that point, but do have them do some surprising things.
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Some writers would say every character has to be very useful and usable in more than one way.
We disagree.
I for one have enjoyed immensely certain characters that show up for short cameo blips and only have one use in the entirety of the story.
Think about when Stan Lee would show up in a Marvel movie for a cameo.
His Character wasn’t always useful in many ways but it was enjoyable to see.
So make some characters show up unexpectedly that maybe only one use. This might be just the thing to make the story more dynamic and less predictable.
Sometimes a character shows up just to help accomplish one small piece of the puzzle for the protagonist and then leaves disappears or dies.
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Just like the humans we know and see every day our fictional characters need to have m.o.’s.
M.O. stands for Modus Operandi which just means someone’s habits or methods.
Everyone seems to have an m.o. a way that they do things.
Your character’s m.o. might be too get coffee at 7, read the news at 8, be at work by 8:30 and to be home by 6.
If they get honked at in traffic they honk back.
If someone says hi to them they usually say hi back.
Things like these are considered someone’s M.O. The way they do things.
The mistake to watch out for here is to have your character not have a consistent character.
One day they say hello the next day they scream and run for no apparent reason. The next day they randomly have a different accent and say “Howdy!” for no explained reason.
For most characters, they will keep the same personality over long periods of time just like your friends and family, but for other characters, they will go on a learning journey where habits and other things in their life will change. They may talk a little different or choose to be a better person or a worse person.
They will still be the same person but they can always try to change habits just like normal people do.
Habits people often try to change normally:
Eating
Sleeping
Caffeine
Smoking
Drinking
Drugs
Cell phone use
Etc
Things like these are acceptable for a person to try to change, but remember that readers like the character to be consistent, especially if they have been for a long time and if they change dramatically or too much too quickly a reader might find that hard to believe.
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This is a tragedy because it just isn’t true. Some critics feel that people are sick of the underdog sorry and we just have to say that they aren’t true yet.
It could happen.
It just hasn’t happened yet.
Don’t be deterred from writing a less lined character that rises above everything that’s stood against them:
Authority
Bullies
Teachers
Enemies
Dictators
Tyrants
Mean spirited people
Etc
People still live to root for the underdog because most of us feel a little bit like an underdog on the inside just trying to succeed.
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Our characters must have goals or else our reader will just stop caring at some point in their surmisable pointless journey.
It’s fine t start them out with no seeming point or reason, but the reader is on the lookout for the BIG WHY.
Our BIG WHY is why is our character being written about and talked about.
If the reader never finds a good reason they are likely to put our story down and NEVER pick it up again. They might remember it though…as being horribly boring. 🙁
So don’t do that to yourself or your reader. Give your characters goals 🙂 .
They don’t all have to have the same goals. In fact, it is more interesting if they don’t have the same goals and are against each other is some goals and with each other in others.
For instance, they could be rivals. This means they have the same goal, but against each other.
They could be rivals but have a common enemy. This still makes them have the same goal against each other but for the moment they could benefit from taming up. Very fun.
They could have the same goal and decide to be allies in that goal and work together as partners or friends.
They could have a group of people that become their allies.
They could be secretly pretending to be partners, but scheming to betray each other at the last second when it really counts.
There are many fun and interesting options we can use when it comes to giving characters goals and what that means the conflicts and resolutions of our stories.
Writing Mistakes to Watch Out For:
7. Thinking they have to earn everything
Fictional characters don’t have to earn everything we see them have or get.
A prince is a prince and with that we expect them to have certain privileges above other characters.
Nice clothes
Meals
Beds
Hair
Makeup
Weapons
Armor
Etc
If it is a person who is down and out and struggling, we expect to see them struggle through and earn things along the way.
It is okay for us to write some characters having honor, fame, glory and other notions before our reader meets them.
In Harry Potter, he had notoriety he didn’t even earn himself and we as readers accepted this. Ron had less, we also accepted this. This is how the world works, so your reader won’t be expecting you to take them through every event the character has gone through before they started to read about them.
They want to go through the interesting parts of their life journey. That’s why they are reading.
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This seems like a no brainer, but we will cover it briefly and move on.
A story must have a coherent plot.
If it goes off into random tangents our reader may lose interest when they realize there was no point to some side plot in the story. OR worse they’ll get to the end and feel gipped. Then they won’t pick up book two.
A plot skeleton should be kept fairly simple and expand as necessary:
Introduction
Hook
Conflict
Climax
Resolution
This plot skeleton is extremely simple on purpose.
There may be multiple mini conflicts with mini resolutions along the way, but one main conflict and one main resolution make for most great stories.
Don’t run off into meaningless side stories that don’t have anything to do with either creating interest for the main character or the main antagonist or characterization.
Our story is like a river it may bend and it may have reservoirs but in there somewhere it needs to come to a raging waterfall for our reader to plunge down in order to find out where the river ultimately leads.
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Your reader doesn’t need to know the in-depth background of every character that steps onto the page, but for some sidekicks and some secondary characters, a little depth and back story can be quite interesting.
Their backstory doesn’t need to be revealed all at once. In fact, it can be more enjoyable if it doesn’t happen all at once but over many chapters.
A little revealing here and a little revealing there. Keep the reader curious about the right characters. Create questions in their minds. And answer those questions in time.
Be purposeful about what you reveal about any character especially secondary characters. Make sure that it is important to a key point in the plot.
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Nothing ruins a story more than an evil diabolical no-good…boring villain.
An unconvincing villain can ruin an otherwise extremely good story with a great plotline. We could have all the characters and the best storyline and plot, but if the villain or antagonist falls flat it’ll make for a very disappointing reveal sometime in the story.
Writing Mistakes to Watch Out For:
11. Writing mistakes: forcing a part of the story that doesn’t quite fit.
We’ve all been there. You’re thinking through this amazing idea for a storyline. You write a really amazing introduction and some killer plot points. One day you write a scene that is amazing and that you love personally.
As time goes on you keep writing, but that awesome scene that you wrote doesn’t really seem to fit in anywhere.
But it’s an awesome scene and you love it. What happens to it? It can’t just die and never be remembered, can it?
Unfortunately, I think it can. It is sad, but it’s important to just let some things go in the editing process.
If you wrote something you love that doesn’t seem to make sense anymore, don’t try to draw lines to it and from it only to leave the reader scratching their head about it, just put it down in your “I loved you once” scenes journal and let it be.
Don’t make your reader question whether you can put together a coherent storyline all for one scene. It’s not worth it in the long run.
If it makes you feel better you can add a section at the end of your book called “deleted scenes.”
Don’t let writing mistakes get the best of you.
I hope this helps!
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Conceptualizing your plot to make it great can be tough if you do not know where to start and don’t have any emergent ideas.
Hopefully this little go through will help you spark some ideas for your plot that will take you to the next level in your story or book. Your first actionable steps for your plot.
1. Start your plot with a big problem
Most readers don’t care about your characters and your world-building without some major problem that needs solving.
A reader wants to go through a journey where some major plot problem is resolved.
Depending on how you choose to resolve the major issues, the reader feels a certain way about the story and your plot.
So focus on your big climactic problem first because that is the most important and pivotal part of any great story.
Keep in mind your major problem doesn’t have to be human. It doesn’t have to be a good guy vs bad guy. It could be human vs nature.
A great hurricane is coming unless you can stop it or if not help others and yourself survive.
What is the BIG PROBLEM you are going to give your characters and how are they going to solve it?
Where does it lead them? And why?
Think about the potential consequences of solving this problem.
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Your major goal goes hand in hand with your big major plot problem.
If your hero’s goal is to stop the bad guy from destroying the kingdom then your problem is the bad guy and his major plans to destroy the kingdom but the goal of the hero is to stop the bad guy.
You can see how these are closely tied together and extremely similar.
And indeed they should be.
If your major problem and your protagonist goal don’t go hand in hand there is a major plot problem.
Unless you’re writing a comedy of course, then your character’s main goal could be ridiculously far from the major problem and it ends up being surprising, funny, and entertaining for your reader.
Going with the example above if a great hurricane is coming unless you can stop it or if not help others and yourself survive.
The great problem is the hurricane, but your character’s goal is to survive and help others survive.
Maybe their major goal is to save loved ones in harm’s way.
Think about the big goal and big major problem makes us naturally think about characters.
What major goals can you give the main characters based on the problems they face?
Does your character have major goals before the big problem arises that they must forfeit in order to stop the major problem?
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3. Choose 1 to 3 or 3 to 5 major characters for your plot
This doesn’t have to be religious, but starting with 1 character to follow and explain is an easy place to start. 3-5 characters is a good place to start also
It gives you something to work with and draw from and it can always change as you go. Like we said it isn’t an “it must be this way every time” rule as much as it is helpful to start somewhere and get going than to be otherwise paralyzed by an infinite amount of choices.
Just start with one character and usually, the others will naturally follow. And don’t be afraid to change them in the editing process to make them more coherent with the entirety of their existence in your story.
Use your major problem to help you naturally create the personality and persona of your main characters by the choices they make based on what they then end up facing.
Even as you think about your major problem you can start to visualize your main character starting to live through it. It’s only natural to imagine things this way.
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Once you’ve got these major ideas in mind it’s a great idea to go ahead and start to put the pen to the page or the fingers to the keyboard.
Try to not go a day without writing at least 100 new words. That’s a pretty attainable goal. Don’t get caught up in continual revising when your starting. Focus on getting words on the page that you can work with.
Just let it flow and worry about changing it later.
Now get out there and write something!
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When creating close relationships with fictional characters, their dialogue matters immensely. Their dialogue shows their true heart and reveals a lot about their character.
How to create a close correspondence with fictional characters
Not all stories must have multiple characters.
But for the stories that do you must consider how to make your characters’ correspondence make sense.
Character correspondence helps define their relationships and how they interact and deal with each other. Their correspondence will shape them in the imagination of your reader.
It will play a key role in who the character is as a person and their worldview.
Not all of your character’s correspondence will be evident at the beginning of their story. Most interactions and conversations will happen after the reader meets the character and your reader will get to go on that journey with them. Some will happen in their past and therefore will be in flashbacks.
Depending on what you choose as the writer will immediately affect how your reader perceives your character and their past and present experiences.
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10 Great Fantasy Writing Prompts To Help Inspire your Writing Today
Write about a family that is magical but after 400 generations of magic, they birth one unmagical child.
Write a character who is a kleptomaniac (compulsive thief). One day they wake up to realize every object they’ve ever stolen has come to life.
Write about a child who has always blamed their mistakes on an imaginary person. On the child’s 30th birthday, they awake to find this imaginary person they blamed everything on has come to life.
Write about a character who picks up a book written in a language they’ve never heard of before. Strangely, they can read and understand every word.
Write about a country that hasn’t been discovered yet.
Write about a species of bugs that only come above ground once every 1,200 years. Their arrival is completely unexpected, and their intentions are truly sinister.
Your character’s sister mysteriously vanishes. The quest to find her is one that reveals many secrets about the family’s dark past.
The country is in a panic. The reason? Magic, an art lost over 600 years ago, has been discovered in the slums.
While walking in an unknown part of the forest, your character discovers a cave with a strange egg inside. When they visit the egg again, they instead find a baby beast they never knew existed. Now it’s up to them to raise it.
Write about a character that makes a wish on a star. The next day they realize their wish has come true. The bad part? They worded their wish wrong… very, very wrong.
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Great fantasy writing prompts can help you flex your creative skills and improve your writing style. By stepping out of your comfort zone, you may discover that you have found your new passion! You can expand your wheelhouse of imagination by starting with a simple idea and expanding on it. You are the captain AND the navigator and can steer your story in any way you please 🙂
Fantasy writing gives you the freedom to make the story as wild as you want. There are no rules and no limitations. You can create the perfect world, or take the opposite approach and build a world no human could ever survive.
Finding daily writing prompts like these can help overcome writer’s block and get the creative juices flowing!
As long as you can follow your imagination and let your words flow then there is no telling where you and your characters might end up. Half the fun is going on the journey with your characters and no one will help them get there without you. So grab your pencil or laptop and take that first step out their front door that ends with a world of possibilities.
Whether it’s non-fiction or fiction writing prompts, either can work to help a writer break out of the same toolbox they may be working in. Sometimes it can be helpful to find a good writing prompts generator but google and Pinterest work just as well, and Reddit writing prompts too.
Take your time, look up some fun writing prompts, and take the leap. Start writing your own fantasy story today. You can start with one of these prompts, or combine a few. Who knows? You just might be surprised with where you land.
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Common! I don’t have all day! Pick up your weapon and face me!
He hates me! I knew it!
I didn’t know what to do so I hid in the bathroom and prayed!
I had never seen anything so beautiful!
The treasure glimmered in the firelight and reflected in her eyes.
Where were you last night?
Why am I the only one that thinks this is insane?
Tell me again, were there two of you or four of you?
I told him I could only give him a ride a couple of miles down the road, but when he pulled a gun on me I said, where do you need to go? He was pretty polite after that.
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