I'm not exactly a good person to give advice on this, but have you tried just starting to write and seeing where it goes? From the beginning or somewhere in the middle or whatever.
The Writing Process: Discussion & Tips
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Definitely do that. It's easier to shape an already written story to your liking than to try and get it right the first time. Just write what you want to write, what you feel is important, whether it is or not, and than start expanding or subtracting on that to delete it.
As for plots, good plots arise from conflict and irony.
Maybe the story can arise out of, I dunno, three long distance childhood friends coming back into touch after years and realizing that they've all become totally different people than they use to be, and how they basically start over from scratch to eventually overcome the obstacles and differences between themselves, realize that maybe they've just simply grown too different and distant, then maybe coming to the conclusion that they've simply a created a new, uniquely different relationship in the end. It's not the most original idea, but it takes your core concept and generates the most compelling conflict it can have, I think.
Just go from there and hopefully something you like comes out.
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So like… is this place dead now or what? Do people still write occasionally? Are some of the older writers still here? Someone give me an update of the past year summed up in like... 3 words. Maybe 2 if you can shorten it that much. As a matter of fact... Sum it up in 2 words.
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Maybe 2 if you can shorten it that much. As a matter of fact… Sum it up in 2 words.
Ghost Town
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I'm still writing now and again, but life has become a massive time sink. Also, I didn't really feel like I had a solid readerbase here anymore, so I've been more and more stingy with CdA updates. So I'm still sort of writing, but clearly not posting.
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@Rogues':
Ghost Town
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Thank you, sir.
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I'm still plugging away when I can. In fact, I should have another chapter of my story up soon.
Admittedly, I've been spending a lot of my free time over the past year-and-a-half working on Let's Plays, but I suppose that's still writing, of a sort.
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I feel like you (and Cuddles) have always had the most impressive work ethic in the writing section. Some of us (like Kitsu) still do quite a bit, but most of us seem to only be able to chug out an update here and there after some serious effort. But then you seem capable of delivering on a regular basis. >_>
I really need to get caught up on Stargazer.~
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Hit another major block with ADT a while back, and since then, I haven't really been feelin' the plotline anymore. The characters, mainly the titular two, still mean a lot to me, though and the story was a huge part of my life for a long time. I may get back to it, but only after some serious rethinking and revision.
Otherwise, I've mostly been working on other stuff, particularly reviews, which have taken up a good chunk of my writing time. I've also been working on a few scripts and some miscellaneous stuff, but nothing I felt needed to be posted here. If the mood strikes me, I may write something to be shared yet again, but for now, I've been content with quietly honing my writing rather than starting any big project. That's where I've been the past couple of years anyway.
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I've been attempting to start a few One Piece Stories. And I guess I've found I can't write a straight up Third person view. I avoid First Person as I generally hate reading it myself. And Second person is hard to write. But weirdly in third person I've found I'm not keen to Characterise but rather I seem to focus on the descriptive and in past tense. As in I'm seemingly writing an eternal prologue. And I've never been keen on writing spoken words. Sort of like an outside perspective looking in. Example:
" It could have been days or weeks that they sailed under a dark cloud. No-one spoke. Their souls and dreams blown away with their beloved Captain. Every one ruminating and sinking into despair. Even the marines guarding their captives shifted uneasily during their watch as the malaise clouded over like a brewing storm. The Mugiwaras were spent, done, deflated, lost.
It may as well have been a room full of corpses."The style tend to carry on through-out. I can give a full example later when I kink out the ending of one short story I've written. (not part of the above) Plus work out what the title is going to be.
I also have the problem of a short attention span. One day I WILL complete a multi-chapter story!
For the record I have Four OP stories in progress (and a Not Story). I've told myself don't post anything to the internet Until You've finished it this time.
One involves a What If and Impel Down (the one I snipped the piece above from)
A list of What If's
One short involve an amusingly awkward moment that is pretty much done
A very complex Not Love Triangle (The Not part being there is three people in a relationship of two and everyone is OK with it. It'll be explained better I hope when it's read)
And what was going to be a very vaguely implied rare pairing that now wants to be a series of written letters and a mystery. And I've never come across this combination in the OP fandom.
