i have so many ideas to start writing,but not big enough ideas to create a whole story.how do i start?

Answer 1

Just start writing! Get your ideas down on paper.

You need a 'big' idea as the central theme of your story, eg, Detective solves puzzling murder case. All your smaller stories get woven in amongst the central big idea, eg Detective has illigitimate daughter, detective drives 1931 Chev, detective's friend is a female impersonator etc etc.

The main thing is to write it down. Whether you have a clear plan on what happens is not important. Many famous authors write without a clear plan other than a 'Detective solves puzzling murder case' idea, and the story evolves as it goes. Remember you will be writing this for months or years so you will be getting ideas as you go along. You will find ideas pop into your head all the time and you will rush to the computer to jot them down.

Get started today!

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Just start writing! Maybe what you actually have is a collection of short stories running around in your head. You'll never know until you put the pen to the paper.

If you're still unsure where to start, try some writing exercises. One I like is free-writing. Just start writing whatever comes into your head, like journaling, and see where it goes. Sometimes you can get a great idea for a story that way.

Or, just start writing about a story you'd like to start, and all the different things that could happen. When you find one you like, go with it and see where it leads you. You can always repeat the exercise for the next step!

Answer 3

First of all, get a notebook. Write down all your ideas in the notebook. Don't let any ideas get lost. Make up a character, or a few characters. Write pages about them (including their history, even if you might not include it in the story) just to get to know them better. Once you've got a solid character, you might be able to easily connect your ideas together, building them around your character. Also, if you know your character well enough, they may be able to determine the setting, time period, and people in the story. Chances are, if you have a good character, it doesn't matter how interesting the plot is. Your audience will want to follow that character, anyway.

All in all, make sure none of your ideas get lost! Even if you can't make anything of them, years later you may find them to be very useful.

Hope that helped and good luck!

Answer 4

Expand your ideas. For example, if I wrote down my idea as soon as I got it on a Post-It note, it would probably be something short, like: "A girl dyes her hair blue". Honestly, could I write a story with that? Not really.

But I could make some good characters. And a full plot. Ask questions to expand ideas.

Why did the girl dye her hair?

Who notices her? How do they react?

What happens to her now that she's changed?

Now the plot is longer, and so will the story be! Just ask questions and make the plot bigger.

Good luck!

Answer 5

I have the same problem. Usually I just start writing whatever I can and when I run out of ideas, I save it and come back to it later. I don't always come back to i t later, but on occasion I do. What usually happens is I come up with another story idea and write my heart out and then get stuck and save it for later. I keep all my stories in one folder on my desktop. I figure at some point I will be able to come back to them and do more.

The other thing I do is start a story and then have my friend take over and she sends what she did back to me and I take over and we go back and forth. It takes different twists and turns and usually turns out to be nothing but on a rare occasion I can develop something out of it.

Answer 6

with some good old fashioned pre-writting. In a bubble in the middle of the page write one of your story concepts, then make some little branch out bubbles and put ideas in it. i.e.- Faerie Escape (main bubble) getting lost in woods, getting attacked by bears, happily ever after (mini bubbles).
Then develope each of the mini bubbles that you want to use. Getting lost in woods- tripping on a tree, getting seperated from the group, etc
Then when you start writting if you find yourself running out of ideas or hitting a wall, you can look at your pre-writting and see if there are any ideas that can help you out. Best of luck!

Answer 7

Write them as short stories, collect them into an anthology and publish it.