Things I’ve Noticed Are Essential In Plotting And Would Probably Have Saved Me A Lot Of Time If I Had

Things I’ve noticed are essential in plotting and would probably have saved me a lot of time if I had considered it earlier

The START of your story - how fucked up flawed is your premise/character at the start? what do they have to change? why are they HERE?

The END of your story - How do you want your main character/theme/universe to change after your story? Does it get better or worse? THIS SETS UP THE TONE DRASTICALLY.

What you want to happen IN BETWEEN - the MEAT of it. What made you start writing this WIP in the first place. Don't be ashamed to indulge, it's where the BRAIN JUICE comes from. You want a deep dive into worldbuilding and complex systems? Then your start and end should be rooted in some fundamental, unique rule of your universe (what made you obsess over it?). Want to write unabashed ship content? Make sure your start and end are so compelling you'll never run out of smut scenarios to shove in between scenes (what relationship dynamics made you ship it in the first place?).

The ANTE - the GRAVITY of your story. How high are the stakes? Writing a blurb or interaction? start with a small day-in-the-life so you can focus on shorter timelines and hourly minutiae that can easily get overlooked in more complicated epics. Or you can go ham on it and plot out your whole universe's timeline from conception to demise. Remember: the larger the scale, the less attached your story may get. How quickly time flies in your story typically correlates with the ante (not a hard rule, ofc, but most epics span years of time within a few pages, while a romance novel usually charts out the events of a few months over a whole manuscript.)

Everything else follows….?

Update

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hey guys, if you saw the community post on the second channel, I’ll be going more in depth here—I’m not really in a good environment right now, I’m constantly under threat of being sent to live with my abusive mother again by my dad, and I’m constantly trapped in my household, I can’t go down the road without a chaperone or move out of state because to my dad it’s too *r slur*, he snapped my phone in half during an argument and pushed me down by my neck

Im so sorry if this is too much to say online, but I can’t go to the police or anything due to my dad, and the only option I really have is to suck it up and save up to attempt to go out of state, I can’t leave either due to my sister

I apologize to ask like this, but my art tablet is constantly taken away due to small arguments, and getting work done is next to impossible sometimes, but please if you can support in any way my kofi is the best way, as I want to keep a fund in my PayPal balance so I can buy a binder(hopefully)

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flareheart8

4 years ago

My first animated Solaris. It took all day to do it, but it was worth it.

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flareheart8

1 year ago

Yep! Lou wants to take in the best of the best dolls. If you ain’t it, you are forced to work. This is the Institute of Perfection after all. A bit more stricter than how it was in the movie.

It's done! After so many days of procrastinating this piece, I finally finished it!!

This is my redesign of the Institute of Perfection. I found the movie version to be very bland and boring, so I took some inspirations from some of the concept arts, and made my own design. I have it to where Perfection is actual in the toy factory, protected by this glass dome. A very glamorous city where Pretties can eat, train, and shop for accessories. There's also some advertisements of "Perfection" and "You can be better" to encourage the Pretties to be better than ever. Underneath Perfection is a workshop where Imperfect dolls are forced to work on crafting accessories. I'll make a drawing of what it looks like once I'm done with my re-design of Lou, the Pretties, and the Imperfect dolls.

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