I don't really "start" with goal/pacing/structure/character/feel, it's just that all those things tend to come to me for free. What I really start with is more like "Okay, and the next thing that needs to happen is... uh...." /*cue dial tone*/
I suspect that what I'm looking for is so basic that everyone assumes it must be more complex, higher-level than it is. Really, seriously, my story ideas look like this:
Joe is out of milk. Joe goes to the store. The store is out of milk, so Joe goes to a different store. As Joe is trying to find the milk at the unfamiliar store, [Thing happens] and Joe is now involved in a plot to overthrow the Broccoli Growers Association of America. He thwarts the plot by [Thing], [Thing], and [Thing], and finally by recovering the chairman's pinky ring (which he knows about because of [Thing]).
What the bleep are the Things? I got nothing.
My process is weird enough that I tend to bounce off other people's processes pretty hard, but I'd be happy to take a look at your scene if it would entertain you to annotate it.
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Date: 2020-Jul-21, Tuesday 03:11 pm (UTC)I suspect that what I'm looking for is so basic that everyone assumes it must be more complex, higher-level than it is. Really, seriously, my story ideas look like this:
Joe is out of milk. Joe goes to the store. The store is out of milk, so Joe goes to a different store. As Joe is trying to find the milk at the unfamiliar store, [Thing happens] and Joe is now involved in a plot to overthrow the Broccoli Growers Association of America. He thwarts the plot by [Thing], [Thing], and [Thing], and finally by recovering the chairman's pinky ring (which he knows about because of [Thing]).
What the bleep are the Things? I got nothing.
My process is weird enough that I tend to bounce off other people's processes pretty hard, but I'd be happy to take a look at your scene if it would entertain you to annotate it.