Fredz66
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5 years ago You already have a story idea. What you need to do now is work out a proper outline. It's creatively much more difficult to think up the actions and imagery than it is to plot or draw a character.
So trying to do it simultaneous to writing is very hard indeed.
Before I write a book now I need to know:
- An overall length I'm shooting for in that genre
- A concrete understanding of each character's motivations -- both internal and subconscious, and external via actions.
- An idea of where each segment of the story (I tend to follow the Hero's journey model) turns and what happens in that segment, generally.
In the hero's journey, you'd typically segment the story into eight areas the reader typically expects in a hero-vs-villain tale: the intro, the question, the search, the discovery, the bottoming out as they discover their true challenge, rising up from it, the route to the final, the finale. (Difft editors have difft ways of phrasing all this, that one is mine.)
All these parts of a story are in most hero-vs-villain pieces, whether its personality conflicts or actual physical battles.
If you want to find writing less work and less challenging, you have to do it more now. It's a craft, and it takes time.
Leave the creative part for 'progressive complication' which is how you add tension to the challenges your characters face.
Voir :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_structure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_arc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWmEu7Yqrb0