Welcome back to my blog! Today, I am finally going to talk about fiction! Although I love writing in general, to me, nothing compares to writing and reading fictional stories. A story can teach you so much about real life without even being real. And a really good story can change your life. So how do you develop one of these life changing stories?
The process is different for everyone, but every story starts with some form of a “What If” statement. For example, I wrote “What If” statements for my three favorite movies to understand what the process was like to develop them.
What if there was a place where all the misfits were celebrated and center stage?
What if someone who is the epitome of a starving artist in Hollywood gave up everything to make it big?
What if two people who couldn’t go near each other because of a disease fell in love?
These three movies were The Greatest Showman, LaLa Land, and Five Feet Apart, which hopefully you would know if you have seen any of them! All three of these movies have moved me in a way that inspires me to tell my own stories. And they all started with an idea…
Now the real question is, did these movies start with a character or a story? A dream come true would be to ask the creators of these movies, my personal idols😊, but since I can’t, I guess I’ll just have to wonder. When I got asked the question of world or character, I was stumped, and had a lot of trouble choosing. For me, ideas for stories come from my own life. I twist things that have happened to me, people I’ve met, or places I’ve been, and change them to become a real story. Interesting people spark the idea for a character and interesting situations spark the idea for a world. And when you finally land on the idea for a good story, you know it’s golden.
A good story makes you feel something, and it makes you aware of something that you maybe didn’t know before. It engulfs you in a world that you don’t exist in, but you can still understand maybe even better than your own world. Coming up with the idea for a story is hard, but to me, the most important thing is to remember the feeling you got inside of you when you first watched your favorite movie. The indescribable, “wow” feeling. When you come up with an idea for a story, whether it’s a character or a world, just makes sure it has that. And if it does, the rest comes easy. Well, maybe not easy. But it will definetly change the way you view your story. It will go from just writing to creating something truly amazing. ★★★★★★★
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