FUUU-

[ofthisangel]

I don't know if it's okay for plebs to post, THERE ARE NO RULES. WHY ARE THERE NO RULES. THAT'S LIKE A PARKING LOT WITH NO LINES, WE'RE SO DOOMED.

D: Okay, so. I have a bunny, a very good, tenacious bunny that has been with me for months and months - so I'm set with that. My problem is I have two ideas for how to write this thing and both ideas

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[boosette]

As a reader, I sometimes find chronological order a little tedious, so I would go for the slow reveal/in media res approach.

[solara1357]

I agree. Those stories are more interesting to read.

[solara1357]

I would just write out a few paragraphs about what happens. After that, you can figure out how many chapters, what happens in those chapters, ect.

[rainbowstrlght]

OMG IT'S ANARCHY. STREAK THE COMM AND SPRAY PAINT ALL THE TRIBBLES! (But anyone can post at any time for any reason, honest!)I have milestones in my head usually before I sit down to write, but otherwise I don't plot out things at all. I take it chapter-by-chapter, letting my characters do their own thing, and have them reveal the plot as they go along. Usually this works out for me - although my last story was harrowing, in that I didn't have an end scene until, um, five scenes before I got there - but the downside is that I usually have no clue how long something will be, and whether I can finish it in a certain length of time. It's like, getting on a rollercoaster in Jersey, and just knowing that at some point you'll fly off in Ohio

[kcscribbler]

Plot and plot, what is plot?

I am one of the write by the seat of your pants types. Every time I try to plan what happens in each chapter, the story does not cooperate and takes me by surprise in a different direction. I don't mind that, because that's proof for me that the story is alive, but it's frustrating if I already have a plot in place that I don't want to change. Basically when I start a story I have the beginning clear in my mind, the ending clear, the climax/final confrontation/whatever scene clear, and a mixture of little snippets and dialogue that I know I want to work in somewhere. I let the rest of it take its course after that. As long as I have a plot skeleton, I won't go entirely off-track but I won't be tied down to an outline if the muse demands I go a different direction

[zauzat]

I normally have a fairly detailed outline but knowing that scenes may be added or rearranged as the writing progresses. I'd start with the situation, then fill us in on the backstory, while having the situation develope towards its climax. But you should be able to just write the bits that interest you and then swop them around and fill in the rest. I recently changed a story from chronological to slow reveal, because the first half was boring on its own but more interesting as an explanation to how the characters had possibily got themselves into the mess I later used as the opening scene. I just swopped scenes around and wrote a few linking lines.