Plot

[Kyra]

Ideas for plot go here!!! Your conflict, rising and falling actions, climax, exposition, resolution (except if we're panning on reading it, you may want to just post the ending as a spoiler), any ideas you want.

[Kyra]

I'm setting up a double plot in my story. It starts out with Sara Welsch, who is actually a literal angel with wings and lives up and heaven and can control air. This is the first exposition, where you are introduced to her best friend Angelica, given a brief tour of heaven, and then follow Sara on her class field trip to Earth, where she finds out she is actually a Mutant, a cross between two of the four elemental factions. Her father was an angel, her mother a naiad, meaning she is, in short, both a faerie and mermaid. (Stop laughing. I KNOW you're laughing at me right now.) She's actually considerably violent and rebellious, and, in short, not your typical mermaid-faerie hybrid. This is the first conflict, which leads you into the second exposition. Sara finds Kiah, who she quickly befriends, and is taken to Atlantis, where Sara is to hone her naiad abilities. However, Khiet learns her secret and spills to the angel council, which is now determined to hunt down and kill Sara. Thus the second conflict. From there we begin the rising action on both plots where Sara is both trying to secure a position with the naiad republic, and also avoid being killed by the angelic society.
Well. How 'bout you guys???

[Mel]

That's super fantabulous, Kyra. Pullman would be proud ;)

[Kyra]

LOL, thank you. So far, it doesn't look like the plot is actually getting anywhere, though...

[Robin]

Ha ha, trust me, my plot is stuck. Like, in a ditch by the side of the road.

[Kyra]

Mine, too. I've run out of original ideas for the SSS. What story are you working on?

[Robin]

Adventures. Part of me just wants to write some crappy fan fiction or teen romance 'cause that seems that that's all people wanna read. And Adventures takes WORK. And character development and plot and twists and traps and conspiracy and hlashfob gtw3[ v 0ya1]. {Head desk}

[Mel]

I have the same problem. Most of my stories are just beginnings, with no real plot.

[Robin]

Me too.

[Kyra]

I've never actually finished a novel before. I usually plan out the whole thing and then end up dropping out halfway through the book. Strangely enough, I've gotten furthest in The Earth Demon (sequel to The Water Angel; don't ask me why I'm simultaneously writing a book and its sequel, cuz I don't actually know), and that's the book I've planned out the least. It's crap, though.

[Robin]

I've finished a ton of like, short stories. Nothing more than 15 chapters.

[Mel]

:() LUCKY!!!

[Robin]

XD

[Kyra]

I do a series of chapters and release them one at a time through e-mail. I got up to 39 before dropping out again.

[Mel]

I'm feeling very jealous right now.

[Kyra]

LOL, so sorry!!! But it's almost more frustrating for me, because I usually build up almost all my rising action, then suddenly lose heart right before the climax. Or sometimes I only just start the rising action before quitting.

[Mel]

Well, do you enjoy yourself? I guess that's the most important thing. :)

[Robin]

Yeah, I've given up on trying to finish. Now I just wanna have fun writing whatever it is.

[Mel]

I read about this cartoon artist who thought up his best cartoons when he was a kid. Maybe now is for great ideas and having fun, and later is for stitching it all together. :)

[Robin]

I like that. :) It does make sense.

[Kyra]

I ditto that. Alright, I'm opting for that road. I saw Brave today. Amazing movie. Merida is really your more ideal princess, the kind you most want to see in theaters.

[Mel]

I keep hearing about that. Maybe I'll see it...

[Kyra]

It's really good. I'd like to say all princesses are more like her, but I can't. (sigh) I just don't personally like normal princesses, if you can, somehow, catch my meaning...

[Mel]

Yeah.

[Robin]

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I WANNA SEE BRAVE SO FREAKIN' BAD AND NO ONE CAN EVER DRIVE ME.

[Kyra]

Poor Robin!!! (mental hug) It's okay, gal. Nothing to die for, it's just a movie.
(Man, I suck at comfort. Could someone please give me a hand over here???)(JK)

[Robin]

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I'unno, that was pretty good. Khali's best in these situations.

BUT JON COZART JUST POSTED A NEW VLOG AFTER A YEAR!!!!! *Freakout* AND HE ADDED VOLDEMORT TO HIS MOVIE VILLAIN MEDLEY!! Okay, you don't care...BUT I DO!! XD

[Kyra]

Not that I don't care. I sorta do.
But who the heck is Jon Cozart? Am I just so ignorant to society I don't know celebrities anymore???

[Robin]

No, he's a vlogger. He's big on theater and singing. So, he wrote The Movie Villain Medley. It's Lady Gaga songs rewritten for movie villains. So, Poker Face is now Joker Face and stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExAt1p...
Linky above. Voldemort isn't in the video since he just wrote the Voldemort one. You can get a free download, though.

[Kyra]

LOL, sounds cool. Haven't seen the video yet though... I'll do it soon.

[Robin]

:D

[Jocelyn]

Robin wrote: "xmw;xxxxxxxxxxrn90Q 75=QPIRYFVA;
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I WANNA SEE BRAVE SO FREAKIN' BAD AND NO ONE CAN EVER DRIVE ME."

Relax, Robin, it's a terrible movie.

[Jocelyn]

Mel wrote: "I have the same problem. Most of my stories are just beginnings, with no real plot."

I have the whole story of mine, all the character details, all the festivals and holidays, every little detail you could possibly want. I have the entire plot.

I've yet to write "Chapter 1."

[Mel]

I started thinking up this one story months ago. It's still just tons of notes in my head. :()

[Robin]

I can never really PLAN a story all out. It doesn't work. I can plan chapter by chapter and have a general outline, but that's it.

I ended up seeing it twice, Ducky. XD

[Jocelyn]

Wow. XD

[Mel]

Robin wrote: "I can never really PLAN a story all out. It doesn't work. I can plan chapter by chapter and have a general outline, but that's it."

Yeah, neither can I. Not planning your entire story out is what I call letting your characters be free, and kind of make their own decisions. I love it when writers talk as if their characters have minds of their own. Stephenie Meyer does that, which is a sign (excuse me, one of the signs) that she is a very good writer. Also, Brian Konietzko and Mike DeMartino (the genius writers of the TV series, Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra) talk like that. These people are the creators of three of my strongest obsessions. ;)

[Kyra]

LOVE Avatar. Seriously, it's one of my favorite TV shows EVER. Haven't watched much of Korra before, though, just an episode or two.
Sorry, off topic. I agree with that sort of writing/thinking, but it doesn't come very naturally to me.

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Here’s a new idea/description for a story that I might write. What do you think?

Nikolina Chernicova is a hunter, but not just any kind of hunter. She hunts a rare sort of animal called Oboroten, which is just werewolf in Russian, her family in Russian so that‘s what she grew up calling them. Oboroten is spelt like this Оборотень in Russian and pronounced like obərətʲen. She hunts them down and kills them. She hates all Oboroten and she has her reasons too. A pack of Oboroten killed her family when she was just a little girl. The only reason she survived the attack was because she was staying at a friends house. Nikolina knew it was a Oboroten attack because her family came from along line of Oboroten Hunters, that’s why that attacked them. The Chernicova line was the last of the hunters, once they were gone there would be no one else to hunter them down. Now the Oboroten live without a care in the world, because for all they know they killed every last hunter.

Nikolina had been fourteen when Oboroten pack killed her family, so she had been sent away to stay with some relatives out of state. While she was a way she trained herself for the day that she would return to the small town of Timmber Valley Minnesota. The town were everything happened, a town filled with Oboroten. Well at least it is for now, because Nikolina is going back and she’s set on getting revenge, no matter what the cost.

Nikolina arrived in Timmber Valley with a plan, but what will happen when she unknowingly starts to fall for one of the Oboroten she’s trying to kill. She went there to kill them all and then get out, no questions asked. That was her plan anyway, until she meet Mikhail. He changed everything, but did he change enough that she won’t kill him when she finds out he’s a Oboroten.

[Kyra]

I actually read the story and then came down to this thread, so I can say this: it's a very intriguing plot, and you set it up beautifully. So far, the plot fits the characters and the setting well (sometimes I'll start writing a story, only to find that the characters and/or the place that they're in don't fit in with the plot). I'm really excited to see where the plot goes!!!

[Mel]

I still like freewheeling writing and being spontaneous. My poems and short stories usually just come from that. Bursts of feelings I can't handle unless I pour them out through writing. But now I'm starting to feel that if I'm gonna try to write a full-out book, I need to have the plot mostly layed out. It makes things a lot easier for me.

[Olivia]

Ok I'm sort of trying to make an apocalyptic, dystopian, new world type of story where mentally challenged are favored over the mentally competent I guess you could say. This is a stretch. I'm actually sharing my writing ideas. Anyway, what do you guys think? Yay or Nay?

[Kyra]

I think it's a good idea, but you would have to explain why. The norm for dystopian or new worlds is that the mentally challenged are either scorned, quarantined, or simply killed off. You would have to explain why you changed this standard for it to make any sense to the reader.

[Olivia]

Thanks. I'll be brainstorming :)

[Kyra]

XD Let me know when you have it figured out. I'm really curious about it now.

[Olivia]

Thanks so much. I'll do that :D

[Jocelyn]

Mel wrote: "I still like freewheeling writing and being spontaneous. My poems and short stories usually just come from that. Bursts of feelings I can't handle unless I pour them out through writing. But now I'..."

Ditto.

[Jocelyn]

Olivia wrote: "Ok I'm sort of trying to make an apocalyptic, dystopian, new world type of story where mentally challenged are favored over the mentally competent I guess you could say. This is a stretch. I'm actu..."

That's brilliant. But like Kyra said, you'd probably want to make the reason why they're favored a big part of the plot.

[Rachel]

Ok, so what I'm currently working on and trying to wrap my head around is a short story for a series of ebooks. 15,000-25,000 words, must have some form of supernatural element and is a romance of the steamy variety. The guy has to be rather alfa as well.

We have Claire Daniels. Lost after her mothers death and trying to take back control of her life after allowing others to make too many decisions for her and just coasting along. She cuts ties with the things holding her back and then receives a letter to come to London to receive an inheritance.

My original plan was to have her inherit a house in the English country side that has (this sounds corny to me, but bear with me) a statue garden in the back and at night she dreams of one of the statues. She finds out he is a man who's been cursed and has to figure a way to free him so they can be together.

I got as far as her flight to London to gather her inheritance and the whole thing took an odd turn and how she sat next to a businessman who slept the flight through, but turns out to be the attorney she is meeting after her flight and they are drawn to one another (Thomas King).

So, my husband says drop the guy I went into left field with and follow my original plan. What are your thoughts? My current thing is that before I had a well formed idea to run with and fill in the gaps and now I have no idea where to go from where I'm at currently and how to fit the supernatural element in. Thinking maybe a shifter? But that sounds so done. At least the statue idea seemed original to me.

This will be my first formal submission of a finished product to anyone and I want it to be cohesive. Thanks!

[Alfaniel]

Rachel,
I think the curse idea is something I'd gladly read. Maybe you have two stories there?