So now that I've had to write lots of fact text for school, with very plain language, I've started to crave more creative and floral text, so to speak. But as we all know, just writing out of the blue without any ideas is hard - at least for most of us. So I wanted to ask you all...
How do you build your stories? Where do you start? Do you have an idea ready, a setting, or where does it bloom? And how do you make sure that it's rolling into a direction you like? Do you write lists or mind maps?
My NaNo last year fell into a trap, where the story didn't feel right to me in the end, the ideas I had at the beginning of the month just fell flat by the time I was actually arriving to the main point. I'm also hoping to write in Finnish this time to make things easier for myself - and also to train myself to write more Finnish text as here I write in English.
All help is appreciated! ♥
How do you build your stories? Where do you start? Do you have an idea ready, a setting, or where does it bloom? And how do you make sure that it's rolling into a direction you like? Do you write lists or mind maps?
My NaNo last year fell into a trap, where the story didn't feel right to me in the end, the ideas I had at the beginning of the month just fell flat by the time I was actually arriving to the main point. I'm also hoping to write in Finnish this time to make things easier for myself - and also to train myself to write more Finnish text as here I write in English.
All help is appreciated! ♥