#misguidedadvices

[misguidedasgardian]

hello, i hope your day is going well. i was wondering if you could answer this question for me. i want to get into writing small things like fics, but every time i have an idea, i never have an idea on how to start. i'm really into HOTD and want to write something about it but i don't know where to start or how to continue after starting. do you have any advice??

p.s. i really like your writing; how it flows and it's different tones!!

Hello love! thank you for your kinds words!

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Well... I don't know how to start myself! hehe, let's talk about my process, maybe that will give you some ideas

First, I start to imagine "scenarios", or "scenes" as I like to call them, scenes with conversations, or where reader does something badass, or anything really, it can be sad, happy, badass, nsotalgic, cool, ANYTHING! then I try to start picturing the events that led to that point or scene. who is MC? who are their parents? where did they came from? where is they going? this will open a fan of possibilities.

It will help you with a background story, and it will give you characters that will be and influence in their lives! and yous tart working from there

Where to start a story, is a tricky bit, the very first opening sentence, I take a lot of inspiration from movies or the very series, for example... what was the very first scene we got of Rhaenyra? her flying her dragon! that is a cool beginning!

I also love the movies and series with a chaotic rebellious MC so, I imagine them doing something they enjoy doing... or if its more dramatic I'd start right by the problem, or the very moment they are born if its relevant to the story. I'm writing a story when it starts even before their birth! its how Viserys sends her father to court and marry her mother! its relevant to the story!

Think about your favorite movies and series! that will help

Also... at first, it will be hard to "sow" everything together, like, the beginning with the scenes you draw in your mind, but let me tell you, it will start to make sense, and when it happens, its magical, like really... everything starts to click into place when you have a good MC and the characters around it, and the way they act. And if you have said scene in your mind, WRITE IT, leave it there and then it will come to be! believe me! I just put everything together with a very unlikely scene and it came to be really nicely.

YOU WILL feel like... pressured, and you don't know how to go from point A to point b, it happens to me a lot, I end up writing a few smaller "scenes" that when Im writing them its like, "why am I writing this? is this relevant?" and I do get away with it most times, it doesn't feel less useless though, but you will have to write some "filler" pieces, but everything is part of the story, all of it

Think about the fact that YOU are the one that is writing the story! we don't know anything about it! its all up to you and what YOU want to show us! you can do no wrong!

If you have two great "scenes" you really like... just make a cut, sometimes it is more dramatic, just...

. . .

And then another scene! jeje

Sometimes it also helps to get "lost" in reader's mind, like, write what they are feeling, what he thinks, how he/she perceives time and let time fly around the character, to slip from one scenario to the next, narrates what they are doing

I came to realize its very nice when MC had a background, a story where they are a kid, built a character, what are they relationship with her family? what do they want to do?

And fill that thing up!

Write everything that comes to mind! in ALL of my fics I have written scenes that takes me dozens of chapters to reach, WRITE IT ALL DOWN (I personally use drive, so they are safely stored in the cloud and it can correct my grammar, that's a tip), I have endings ready before they are beginnings, and that is part of my process

Writing everyhitng down helps, to where you want to take the story

I have started stories with no clear end, and that is also fine, a bit confusing for you, but just... let it rip! like Beyblade

I hope this helps! you can also, if you have the time and means, to make a nice header to the story to set a tone, It's fun for me, but i'm a designer so... jajaja a nice collage! pinterest can become your best friend!

AND NEVER FORGET... Have fun!

I'm having the time of my life writing for HP, although its not my most popular fic, but its been a while since I felt like this.

It's not easy! you are not born with it, but the good news is you can practice it! put into words what is on your mind!, its magnificent and it feels so so good!

Never forget that you evolve, and you improve, and you will get better once you start! My english had improved A LOT (i think) hehe. Don't be discouraged! this is your own world and you can do whatever you want with it!

Anyways! come to my next ted talk and I hope this helps! I really rambled with this!

thank you noonie ❤️