Which came first: the characters or the story?
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Re: Which came first: the characters or the story?
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I'm not a very experienced writer, but for me I think the character would have to come first. I like to create characters that have elements of myself and my friends and family and think of how they would react to real life situations.
Although I think that with a fantasy novel, it would perhaps come more naturally to create the story first?
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The same thing happens with me, though sometimes I wind up having both turn up at the same time, and a character is so much a part of a certain story that I can't pull her out without bringing a lot of the story with her.Lovely_Ink wrote:I think it all depends on which (the story or the character) has the most urgency. Sometimes there's a story inside of me just waiting to be told and it just needs a voice (character) to tell it. Other times I have random characters in my mind just searching for something (a story) to tell.
Not necessarily. While a lot of fantasy needs a great deal of world-building and fantasy can be very plot-oriented, some of my fantasy work starts with characters and just a hint of story. I'm working on a piece about a Fae who meets up with a human in a post-apocalyptic world. I had a bit of the story planned out, but once I started working with the characters more, the story changed completely, and the focus of the story has always been more on the Fae than on what the plot has to be.amh_02 wrote:Although I think that with a fantasy novel, it would perhaps come more naturally to create the story first?
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