Addison
Auror
I am so close to being done with this NIP but still can't reach it! It's like being a toddler who's big enough to see and reach over the counter but can't reach the cookie jar.
Has anyone else had this problem?; You have a middle, and ending, and the beginning of the second act or end of the first act. But it's the beginning, the beginning of the whole thing, that you're still struggling with. Either you can't think of one or you have so many ideas that you can't choose? I'm having that problem. I have the general idea of how I want to get from the very first sentence to what I have already. But the entire picture, the story board of events, not even sorta. I have a dozen ideas of how but they each give more to the story. More complexity.
One case has the protagonist discovering magic by cleaning out the attic and then finding the maker (who had printed the logo on the bottom). This one doesn't give that much complexity. The other do.
The story starts with the hero in their teens or early twenties, living a life they wish could end (not in the death sense) After an unbearable day, the last straw, she/he leaves and finds themself in the magic world turned back into an eleven year old. The third is like this only the protagonist has amnesia.
The final one is the most complicated. Protag and mother (or just him, version B of this one) has found peace after the chaos leading them to it, but the chaos is ripped away when their friend is revealed a thief. Years later they running from the stalker who had revealed the truth and had followed them since and wind up in a community who could use some help. A lot of it.
If anyone sees a common denominator, please tell me. But you see my point? The more complex you make it, while it adds depth and such, it also becomes confusing. How do you give enough complexity to keep the story interesting without giving your readers a head ache?
Has anyone else had this problem?; You have a middle, and ending, and the beginning of the second act or end of the first act. But it's the beginning, the beginning of the whole thing, that you're still struggling with. Either you can't think of one or you have so many ideas that you can't choose? I'm having that problem. I have the general idea of how I want to get from the very first sentence to what I have already. But the entire picture, the story board of events, not even sorta. I have a dozen ideas of how but they each give more to the story. More complexity.
One case has the protagonist discovering magic by cleaning out the attic and then finding the maker (who had printed the logo on the bottom). This one doesn't give that much complexity. The other do.
The story starts with the hero in their teens or early twenties, living a life they wish could end (not in the death sense) After an unbearable day, the last straw, she/he leaves and finds themself in the magic world turned back into an eleven year old. The third is like this only the protagonist has amnesia.
The final one is the most complicated. Protag and mother (or just him, version B of this one) has found peace after the chaos leading them to it, but the chaos is ripped away when their friend is revealed a thief. Years later they running from the stalker who had revealed the truth and had followed them since and wind up in a community who could use some help. A lot of it.
If anyone sees a common denominator, please tell me. But you see my point? The more complex you make it, while it adds depth and such, it also becomes confusing. How do you give enough complexity to keep the story interesting without giving your readers a head ache?