Gecks
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Please help with any general advice you have. I should admit initially I have extremely limited practice in writing any sort of continuous prose other than extremely boring essays when I was at uni... (however, I write a lot of verse / not-quite-poems which are generally satire or comedy, so I can use words and stuff - but apparently only when they rhyme!). But I read a lot of fantasy and for some reason believed I should be able to write some. . . (oops)
I seem to have clearly in my head formed an idea of what my world is like,. and the main characters, down to their looks and personalities and backgrounds and so on. I have a fairly clear idea of the type of 'magic' in my world and how it works. I even have imagined various 'scenes' and interaction... I have even written some of this out.
But I don't have any overriding plot.
I think this might be because I used to do a lot of text based role-play actually (hmm, I lied in my first paragraph then.. I have written prose fiction stuff, but it has been all character profiles, and then text based fantasy roleplay in an online chat room or whatever - and the worlds would have been already created, not by me). So I'm good at coming up with small scenarios and stuff but I can't seem to work out any sort of larger scale plot.
Please does anyone have any tips or advice for me?
(I realise I probably sound completely ridiculous, but my story is gonna be awfully boring if it's just some people existing, nothing happens, and then the end!)
Thanks
I seem to have clearly in my head formed an idea of what my world is like,. and the main characters, down to their looks and personalities and backgrounds and so on. I have a fairly clear idea of the type of 'magic' in my world and how it works. I even have imagined various 'scenes' and interaction... I have even written some of this out.
But I don't have any overriding plot.
I think this might be because I used to do a lot of text based role-play actually (hmm, I lied in my first paragraph then.. I have written prose fiction stuff, but it has been all character profiles, and then text based fantasy roleplay in an online chat room or whatever - and the worlds would have been already created, not by me). So I'm good at coming up with small scenarios and stuff but I can't seem to work out any sort of larger scale plot.
Please does anyone have any tips or advice for me?
(I realise I probably sound completely ridiculous, but my story is gonna be awfully boring if it's just some people existing, nothing happens, and then the end!)
Thanks
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