I’m guessing you’d have to track down a protagonist first. One that is charming and elegant, but can get their hands dirty. Maybe someone that is elusive but a driving force. Someone that everyone can empathize with. I guess one would need an idea to start with, too.
And you can only write a protagonist if they have a proper background illuminating the details of their everyday life. What is dull to me may not be to you, and if no one ever tried then we wouldn’t go anywhere. How do you find a setting? What will a mountainous region do to your story, casting shadows upon the skiing town nestled in the sky? What if the protagonist is an orphan who is on the run from an evil money-hungry mastermind? The setting sticks to the protagonist like glue. It’s the world of your story.
Side characters and dialogue are the parts of a story where I still feel completely unpracticed. How do you continuously write stories when your dialogue is insufferably unrealistic? I have always wondered how the popular writers got it done, Dickinson spent her entire life indoors but never once trapped her mind within. I know I should tell myself that anyone is capable of being a storyteller, the emotional truth is what will rise to the surface.
Stories are the playground rumors and coffee break tales. They grow upon themselves, like a perfect fungus. There is no such story that can be told without beginning somewhere. Speak it out loud and actually believe it, write it down, see it unfold.
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