Post AcwmfdXR2MEAqsa3e4 by NSonic79@www.minds.com
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(DIR) Post #AcwEMHv3nKpXrHEWiO by synthnostate@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T15:10:06+00:00
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For me it's a mixture, I don't think I lean toward any particular 'seed'. Then I usually just outline a story and/or write a few key sections and set it aside, because I never think "oh I gotta finish this one, it's gonna be a big hit!" Of course, I've never actually _tried_ publishing.
(DIR) Post #AcwEMJHQjeJo4whuDo by lordjestocost@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T15:34:54+00:00
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Things, definitely. Usually an idea, or more likely, a variation on somebody else's idea. This is the beginning of an entry that led to a book, "We Are Fairies about two twenty-somethings in a giant world where being an ordinary human is like having fairy powers: "If the faerie world is contained in ours (an idea encountered in Little, Big) does it not follow that our world is contained in another, more mundane world?"Sometimes, I'll jot down an image, or a snatch of dialog. For example, the first time I wrote something longer than a short story, started with this: "...He is a tall, thin shabbily dressed man in a tattered coat, standing in an alleyway, a few feet back from the sidewalk. His feet are buried in the snow, but there are no footprints around him." That led to a book, "Pod Babies," about a women becoming convinced the babies they're taking care of aren't the ones they gave birth to.
(DIR) Post #AcwNNfSsdbj6lCmjrM by the_edgy_penguin@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T15:42:55+00:00
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It depends, most of the time I tend to imagine a scene. With a major character and from there try to imagine the story leading up to that.
(DIR) Post #AcwNNokw5qW7ZoImki by antonyobeara@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T15:45:55+00:00
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I usually think up the theme of the story first and then craft the characters around it.
(DIR) Post #AcwNNyrgVbrCvdXJey by asihart@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T16:09:17+00:00
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Sometimes they seem to just come together out of thin air, as if in a dream.Sometimes literally as a dream.Or it's some scenario, that I wonder how came to be, and try to construct the sequence of events leading to it, with whatever types who would cause it.Mostly it's some "what if?" idea that I'm playing with, that just happened to inspire me.
(DIR) Post #AcwNOTHFR88BFbj9fc by authorbrookeshaffer@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T15:41:33+00:00
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Most of my stories have started out from a question, wondering what if something were different about another book/movie/etc. that I've seen.The Timekeeper Chronicles actually started out because of an odd tendency I have towards time that got interrupted. For me, unclaimed time is a river, scheduled appointments are rocks, and the time in between (such as commute, etc.) is marshy reeds. And I experienced a period where I couldn't navigate my days/weeks like this and it scared the shit out of me. So I came up with a story where the characters could control time. And it went from there.
(DIR) Post #AcwQCNGKH1rwz2Df9M by usagitenshi@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T17:30:56+00:00
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I usually have some idea of the story that I want to tell. A very fuzzy one, but basically, the end that I want. Then I have to backfill everything else. ...And then last of all, I figure out theme and then have to work forwards from the beginning and then the end can change
(DIR) Post #Acwmdhp08mydYbsOMi by CodenameWraith@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T20:17:24+00:00
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In the case of my current WIP, a place, as the initial premise was me just wanting to try a story set in something of a Nordic setting. For short stories, it's usually an event or character.
(DIR) Post #AcwmfdXR2MEAqsa3e4 by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T20:06:27+00:00
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It starts off with an idea. Preferably with a “what if” historical reference and work it from there. Or I reimagine a folklore story and warp it with a timetravel bent
(DIR) Post #AcwmiFMjMnvGkaonS4 by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T20:06:20+00:00
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It starts off with an idea. Preferably with a “what if” historical reference and work it from there. Or I reimagine a folklore story and warp it with a timetravel bent
(DIR) Post #AcxCbipS1SECuUnkC8 by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-12-18T22:44:32+00:00
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At this point, after having written a fair amount, I can stay that story ideas emerge from just about every source equally. Sometimes it is a bit of song lyrics, sometimes it is the mountains covered in mist in the morning, other times it is a line from a movie, game, or show taken out of context and fleshed out in another context. I've written stories starting from characters taken from old D&D campaigns or historical accounts or even people close to me or myself.I will say that the type of story, or more precisely the story's theme, is a huge factor as to what kind of inspiration generates the bulk of the narrative. For instance, the Seven Scholars stories are primarily inspired by particular abstract ideas and historical figures.
(DIR) Post #AcxCcy5OmXjkWFr4F6 by sugarthyme@www.minds.com
2023-12-19T01:39:46+00:00
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A lot of mine are "What ifs". You're reading a story, and maybe anticipating the next part to come out, but then it doesn't play out at all like you expected. Or maybe it doesn't pay off stuff it set up, and then the ideas start flowing.
(DIR) Post #AcxNwyAbHL644D1mzo by tj_vista@www.minds.com
2023-12-19T03:18:31+00:00
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For Project Psycho Lover, the idea came into my head after looking at a manga recap video where the protagonist gets isekai into another world, only to learn that his possesive sister is isekai'd as well, much to his horror. Not only that, the protagonist's sister is pretty dangerous and hostile to anyone that gets in her way. I felt like I want to make a story inspired by this premise, but have my protagonist deal with a possesive girlfriend who won't refuse to die under any circumstances.