Link plot ideas into a storyline?
Hey!😊
I'm currently writing (or rather, planning) a story that's supposed to be around 100 pages long. I've already written the very basic plot, but I still have a lot of individual ideas I'd like to incorporate into the story. Unfortunately, I'm not quite succeeding. It just doesn't create an exciting and logical plot.
Does anyone here have any techniques or tips for me on how to tie all these loose ideas together into a storyline?
Would help me a lot😅
LG Eortner😊❤️
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It’s important that your hero has a goal. This goal is the red thread for you. On this red thread you can then go along and join your loose events. Thus, on his way, many things can happen to him that have nothing to do with the goal. You can put these events in his way as stumbling stones. He must either bypass this stumbling stone or clear it out of the way, but he must not lose sight of his goal.
If you give the reader a little lead and let him know what awaits your hero, but even in ignorance, you will create tension. The reader already knows what will happen. “No! Don’t go through this door!” Your hero stumbles from an adventure to the next.
Thank you, this is really a good tip😁
There is no standard recipe for this. We don’t know what a story is about and what additional “ideas” there with pure. Sure, however, if the idea does not match the basic plot, it is a foreign body or something. Then it’s better if you let them out.
However, there are enough ways to build side stories. I am thinking of a crime where the Commissioner fought with a toaster for almost a whole chapter. He had to stay at a hotel for the investigation.
Another way is to let an old friend suddenly appear. He has a problem to solve and asks for help. So you can get a bank robber to play babysitter and at the same time build up tension because it should be in a completely different place.
I always help to write down the story completely so that you know what happens in history. If you think of something later when writing, you can probably add it somewhere.
Was just a little tip, but maybe it helps who:p
It always depends. A ‘One Idea fits all’ solution I can offer badly, it depends somewhere on the idea itself and how much space it would take. what you need to change everything about your history and how everything ultimately fits together.
If you want to build up half a new line of action, it is, of course, more problematic than if you simply have a scene or a small aspect you want to insert and that fits well into what is already there.
In the end, you need to see what you can possibly insert into your plot or what you would be willing to change on the plot.
Very important: if you build it, please stop the whole thing. Say: Don’t write it into a scene that eventually blunts half-dissolved in orbit, but rather ties the whole thing really well into history
And if that’s not possible (which can be quite possible), then don’t try to force it in, just so that it’s ‘here’, but consider exactly whether your story needs it and, if necessary, find yourself out that the idea in this specific story will not find a home (there are still other stories in which the idea may be found. “just like by yourself”.
In this sense, I wish you a lot of fun during further plotting and writing:)