❛ the lazy writers ❜

[BucketORandomness]

@Worst, thank you. I'm glad you liked them >^.^<

@Galaxy, do you know how you want the end of the story to happen? It might help you get there. Or you could try thinking of how your characters would react to whatever's gone on. What might a reader ask about what happened next?

[Bilaz]

In my story I honestly don't even know who the protagonist is and who the antagonist...
I've got one character who truly means well who is making all the wrong choices and the character who the other characters see as the heroine is motivated by revenge and self-pity.

She has a point though, oh what have I done to you, my poor little character. You used to be so sweet when I started writing you.

Ha, that actually sounds great XD teach me your ways

Why thank you so much! I could tell you a bit about the story if you are interested.

[DeMaizu]

[list]How long is the story? If it's longer than ten pages, then the fact that you can write without planning is really impressive.

Uh . . . Well, I can't answer for her/him/them, but I actually have some stories of my own that didn't have any real set out planning and they're over ten pages. This one, that one, and dat one, although the last one is kind of on hold at the moment . . . .

In your opinion, what's the best thing you ever wrote?
UH. I'm not really sure - does "best" mean the work that I like the most, or the work that has the most effort put into it? If it's the one that I like best out of all my numerous worlds, then probably this one again. If we're talking about things that have the most effort put into them, then most likely Griffin.

[galaxy,]

@Worst, thank you. I'm glad you liked them >^.^<

@Galaxy, do you know how you want the end of the story to happen? It might help you get there. Or you could try thinking of how your characters would react to whatever's gone on. What might a reader ask about what happened next?

i know loosely how i want it to end and some other strands of the story that i am 100% certain about, but from the position i left my characters in (it's the first part of the story, i'm missing the second one) i'm not sure how to proceed haha

or it might be better to say that i know how i want it to continue but i'm not sure how to get my characters there

[winged-backpack]

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I've also been doing this thing that's apparently called "Draft Zero"--I write everything out with minimal planning, as quickly as possible, just to get a "feel" for the story. Then, I plan out my story meticulously for the next few drafts. Do any of you do this?

That sounds like a really interesting way of writing, I might have a go at that ^^

@Galaxy

Wherever your characters are atm, give them a problem to fix that will help them to get to the ending. Just think about your ending, then list all the possible ways that could end up with your characters reaching that ending. Literally write down every idea you have, then choose one or two and expand, expand, expand! In my opinion, having a very small idea, then expanding upon that idea is a really good way of making plot points.

For example a small idea might be they find a stray dog, then expanding on that you would ask yourself "where did they find it?", "how did they find it?", "will they keep it?". Who, what, where, when, why and how are your friends here ^^

Good luck with it

[Silver Pandorica]

I updated "Caught In The Rain"! It's on my Wattpad account c:

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I've also been doing this thing that's apparently called "Draft Zero"--I write everything out with minimal planning, as quickly as possible, just to get a "feel" for the story. Then, I plan out my story meticulously for the next few drafts. Do any of you do this?

That sounds like a really interesting way of writing, I might have a go at that ^^

@Galaxy

Wherever your characters are atm, give them a problem to fix that will help them to get to the ending. Just think about your ending, then list all the possible ways that could end up with your characters reaching that ending. Literally write down every idea you have, then choose one or two and expand, expand, expand! In my opinion, having a very small idea, then expanding upon that idea is a really good way of making plot points.

For example a small idea might be they find a stray dog, then expanding on that you would ask yourself "where did they find it?", "how did they find it?", "will they keep it?". Who, what, where, when, why and how are your friends here ^^

Good luck with it

That sound really cool @Worst! I pretty much just jump in without much planning at all and then kinda get bored of writing the story. Might come back to it months later tho XD

Also, @Backpack, that's a good tip! It'll help me with my writing...

In your opinion, what's the best thing you ever wrote?

Uh...I can't decide that. Sometimes I think my stuff sucks, and sometimes I don't. Maybe Confound Nexus? Or New Blood? That one was doing pretty well, and I was especially happy with the first chapter or two. (Those are both on my Wattpad, for anyone who's interested. It's one of the links in my signature c;)

[AriDeZu]

So, um, I've been really inactive and I now have something to say.
I've started working on one of my stories again, (Yay!) and I've been watching at the same time. I've gotten a lot done so far while I've been doing this. Has anyone else done anything like this?

[Ranger of the North]

In my story I honestly don't even know who the protagonist is and who the antagonist...
I've got one character who truly means well who is making all the wrong choices and the character who the other characters see as the heroine is motivated by revenge and self-pity.

She has a point though, oh what have I done to you, my poor little character. You used to be so sweet when I started writing you.

Ha, that actually sounds great XD teach me your ways

Why thank you so much! I could tell you a bit about the story if you are interested.

Hey, sure!

[Bilaz]

Hey, sure!

Okay, bear with me as I'm lousy at naming characters/places so I usually just use placeholder names while writing so I can procrastinate naming things.
Also, the beginning of the story is rather dark so I'm afraid I can't go into details about that, so I just say that after this part:
- My 'heroine', Ida (pronounced 'ee'-da) (hey, I named this one! Go me ) has a legit reason to be furious with the antagonist (I'm just going to call him that, cause Ida is the main character).
- The antagonist, who is the leader of a country (country 1 for now, sorry about this ), has basically lost his mind and fallen back on the things he learned from his father. Only that was a complete different era.

Back in the day country 2 was an enemy of country 1, however there has been peace for years. So, the antagonist, who really just wants to protect his people, makes the mistake of heightening their defences and the border control between the two countries. Now Ida, who is from country 2, sees this as perfect opportunity to ruin his reputation. She starts spying on him and reporting her findings to her country's old allies, basically falling back into the 'old days' as well.

These allies don't take it the way she had anticipated though: they see her as a heroine who is risking her life to warn the world that a superpower (country 1) has a mentally unstable and potentially dangerous leader.
In response they send troops to protect some countries that used to belong to country 1: a fatal mistake. The antagonist wouldn't have invaded them, he thinks they are still his! There was no problem, but now there is. Obviously he sees this as an invasion and in response he sends troops as well to 'defend' these countries. Ida takes this opportunity to make things escalate even further and brings the old resistance group in these countries back together.

Basically in this story what happens is that one person starts basing his choices on an era that is no more. This leads to a series of events that end in the return of this era. The antagonist is truly trying his best to be a good leader while the protagonist who everyone sees as a brave heroine is really the one stirring things up.

So, in the beginning of the story I mainly focus on a few characters, their lives and relationships, and only later on do I get to the big picture. It was a story in which I mainly wanted to experiment with the psychology of my characters. I also wanted to show that a seemingly insignificant (to everyone outside my main characters I mean, on a personal level it was devastating) event can have a large impact on the world as one thing leads to another and creates a snowball effect.

[BucketORandomness]

So, um, I've been really inactive and I now have something to say.
I've started working on one of my stories again, (Yay!) and I've been watching at the same time. I've gotten a lot done so far while I've been doing this. Has anyone else done anything like this?

Like, watching a television series? If I try to do that, I end up messing up whatever words I'm trying to write and writing the words they're saying instead >^.^<