At the moment, I'm at the plotting stage of a new writing project. I always find the beginning very difficult to navigate. There are too many possibilities wandering around; the imagination becomes something that is wild and untameable. Some ideas are far too fanciful, some breathtaking with no real substance, some meandering forever, going nowhere at all. It seems a gigantic task to pluck several beings, with given characteristics and house them in their settlements, whether colourful and exotic lands, watching them soar the skies, ramble through forests and over mountains, or make them urban creatures living in squalid accommodation, allowing them to walk along dark, creepy alleys and dull-lit streets, drinking in lowly pubs and visit seedy motels.
Sounds like being a kid in a candy store, but it can become overwhelming. In trying to impose some order on the chaos, I have my plot graph already lined up, and a to-do list for when the brainstorming session dies down.
1. Outline story in two or three paragraphs.
2. Plot five point arc: -
- Inciting incident
- Primary incident
- Midpoint
- Climactic Event
- Resolution
* I am also re-visiting a favourite book:
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