#i hope this helped if it didnt please ignore my ramblings sorry hzhzhshshshsb

[nixoon-again]

Do you have any advice with brainstorming ideas? I have been struggling recently and really look up to your story’s :DDD How do u develop concepts or characters ?? I am okay with getting an idea I just don’t know how to make it fly

i just think about it a lil hard and then my brain keeps exploding until the voices force me to write it tbh 😔🔥 /lh

Hzbsgsgsg but like im very bad at giving writing advice (or any advice in general) because i usually don't follow any rules??? but here are somethings that i do to develop an idea and how to centre a story around it:

note down the central idea, at this step try to write everything you know happens in it not minding how it's written. just something that will help you remember what hour idea is later in your notes maybe. for example, the note i wrote down for the forces fic was literally just

"sonic and tails both get taken to death egg during forces but sonic doesn't know"

if you have any vivid scenes in mind that may happen later in the story or anywhere in a non-sequential order, note them as crudely as you want. try and capture the scene with the bare minimum, it could be just a set of dialogue or a two line explanation of what is happening in the scene here's another example of how i do that lmao

"I'm only here to pick you up because amy asked" "you wound me" + dramatic sigh and then they go home

now that we have established some base, here's the actual singular writing advice i do follow: establish who your characters are, what do they want and how can you stop them from getting to their goal. this really helps building plots and being evil to critters in general. for example, suppose we have an idea like "tails is injured and he has to find sonic to deliver vital news before everyone almost dies" the goal here is getting to sonic? oh well maybe there's an avalanche and now he's stuck under the snow, too bad 👎 (add as many hindrances as you want, it's free real estate)

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now that we have the setting, the characters, the problems and some scenes to bounce around with, tome for connecting everything (worst part) i usually figure this out by starting to write a rough outline that i can change overtime if i figure something out that works better, try and do some research how other writers (fanfic and general) connect their stories by reading their works

afterwards make a finalized outline that tells you what happens in each chapter, this is also mostly changeable if you can't fit all of the ideas you wrote down in the same chapter and need to make things longer. happens to me always hzbzgzgzv

outline acquired, now here's the boss fight: actually writing 😔

im bad at giving advice