I'm writing a book...anybody want to help me start it?

Question

I need the name or the main character(s). Where does he/she/they live? What is their main lifestyle, that sort of thing. And what is it goign to be about? Ok...this may seem like you are writing it for me but I need something to work with and I have a horrible case of writer's block! HELP!!!

Answer 1

When I get stuck trying to think of an idea, I think of things that happened to me in my life, and work from that. Like, one time I needed to write a story for a school project.

I couldn't think of anything to write, so I thought about on time when I went camping up at Niagara Falls. My food was stolen by a coyote in the middle of then night...bla bla bla. Then I changed it around a little so it was a 8th Grade School Trip to Rifle Falls, and it wasn't me it was a group of 6 8th Grades. I made sure that all of the characters were different and unique, with their own personalities.

Different people like different genres, so what you write depends on what you like to read and how you feel. If you really like fantasy, then why not write about dragons and wizards? If you like Sci-Fi, then you could write about space ships. If you like reality, then you could write about a girl in California who is struggling through High School. Its up to you to decide what you want to write about.

Sometimes it helps to look up names on places like baby names.com. You can see a name that you like for a character, and think about what that name sound like to you. Does it sound girly? Tomboyish? Rough? Mean? Prissy? Preppy? Dark?

Sometimes I will think of a place that I would like to go to, and look it up on google. Then I can write a sory based around facts that I learned.

It might help you just to take out a peice of paper, pick a setting, and start free-writing about it. You arn't writing a story, just words and phrases to describe the setting. For example, if your setting was: Porto Heli Bay, you could write things like: Sunny and Hot, Hillside covered in tiny white houses comeing down to the beach, boats in the harbor, tiny yellow fish swimming around, colorful, and that sort of thing.

I always make a sheet of notes for each character so I can can look back for ideas. I hope that I helped you think of some ideas on what to write in your story! Good Luck!

Answer 2

You need this book:

http://www.amazon.com/No-Plot-Problem-Low-Stress-High-Velocity/dp/0811845052

. . . and then, next October (early), sign up for something called National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).

You know how people say, "Write what you know"? It's because there are plots inside you already. Find the genre that just flows from you. If it's a specialty genre like crime or historical fiction, you also need to do research.

Why don't you step back and put together an outline? Determine what types of things interest you, what experiences you and friends have had, and even what you would do if confronted with something outrageous.

If you're a girl/woman, writing from a woman's perspective is probably your best best, because you've experienced being female. You would write what you know. Also, emotional content (deaths of relatives or friends, love relationships gone rocky or sour, extraordinary things which have happened to you) is what you want to be writing. The human condition is important.

Okay, final bit for you: Main Character (MC) is named Casey. Casey lives an average life and is known for being very unextraordinary. He/She/It is on a quest to find something. It's a personal quest to save someone close to him/her/it, and everything's going great until someone else in power needs the same thing. It's a race to get to the goal, and Casey finds him-/her-/itself doing things she/he/it never imagined she/he/it could accomplish.

Real life setting is in a real or fictional large metropolis you know, or a fantasy or science fiction venue which reflects places you've been or would love to be. Never write about places you haven't been; you end up in a situation where people who have been there lose their suspension of disbelief.

Apply horror, fantasy, romance, crime, whatever to it.

Answer 3

A lot of people like fantasy so your charactors could be wizards, witches, dragons, that sort of thing. The storycould be about wizards and witches living in a peaceful town when a dark wizard and his dragon overun the town. Then a group of wizards and witches form a group to slay the dragon and kill the wiizard

Answer 4

Bill is just your average schmo who has a job as the local Starbucks until he decides what he wants to do with his life.

His girl just left him, for he has been aimless since graduating college two years ago (with a degree in mathematics), so he has withdrawn in on himself.

His life is about to take an unusual turn because of a glib, throw-away comment to a customer

Answer 5

The main characters should live in Key West, Flordia.

Answer 6

Nick Masterson small town sherrif in remote Alaska. In a slow paced, uneventful town populated by trappers and fishermen, someone has just dicovered the frozen remains of...

Answer 7

Start with "Once upon a time" (pure genius, Shakespear is not fit to inhale the steam off one of my turds!!!).

Answer 8

well, here's how i begin with some of my stories:
bleep! young(add a name) just awoke to start(his or her) day.
then i describe daily start of the morning thing. i hope i helped!

Answer 9

It was a very cold December day,

Answer 10

Unless you have some ideas of your own it won't be a very good book, will it?