Like do you ask yourself your own questions that work for your own novel? I say this because I ask myself questions for better understanding my own story and Alagossia as a whole. I do this because many questions can’t help me the way I could help myself.
Does anyone do this? It’s like testing yourself to know your story in a better way of sorts. I can’t explain but I’m sure you all understand enough.
Thoughts and feelings?
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Does this topic make sense to you or not? Sorry for not explaining things properly.
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I really should do this. One of my problems when writing is that I never know the story well enough to encapsulate the essence of it into a good elevator pitch or book description.
And as they say, great novels ask readers to think about interesting questions, so the book really ought to make the writer think about them first. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
I may have screwed myself over with asking questions for my magic system for now. Because I can’t stop and the questions are rather hard in a weird way. So, I have to really figure things out for magic system and world building of Alagossia. I need to make one for my novels at some point like project succession and project bloodline.
Update: I have too many questions to ask for my magic system and this list gets longer as continue thinking up more and more. And this is only for my magic system and nothing else for now.
My magic system is heavy as hell!
100%. I usually ask myself questions about how certain systems would work. With ‘The Blue Rose Society’ I asked myself the questions of:
Some of themes have yet to have an answer, though…
Hooray for asking ourselves questions about our stories and probably overdoing it! LOL!
I think if you’re NOT asking questions about your own story, then you’re doing it wrong lol
Ask every question you can think of, and if you think you’ve answered them all, ask someone else what questions THEY have for your story.
Note taking of said Q&As is also pretty important.
Very true! Thank you!
I tend to ask plenty of questions about my characters, but not enough about my world/setting. I need to start digging deeper into world building and asking myself about how things work and why.
I was doing that with my magic system and I don’t think I am done even though I have so many questions.
I need to do one for the entirety of Alagossia.
That’s gonna be fun.
I probably do without any system 
Usually, during the editing stage.
So, yes, but only when you are editing?
Yeah.
First draft for me is pantsing and usually I try to ignore plot holes especially if I want to just get the story done.
I was planning on doing that, but I need to ask myself a shit ton because I know that Project Succession needs that, desperately. LOL!
I usually start from chapter one and work my way down through the story and if something comes up that doesn’t make sense, I fix it in the early chapters and then adjust everything accordingly, UNLESS, I remember something in the later chapters that I wanted the early chapters to match with. So, then, in that case, I’d fix the early chapter to match with later chapters.
That sounds like an interesting idea to play around with and also plot related questions are great as well.
I question it all, every paragraph, every chapter, every idea and character that pops up as I go… Then I question it all once more…
SD
Does “wtf is even happening?” count as a made up question for my stories? 
Oh… That is the most acceptable questioning… The old “WTF?” inner-self screaming option always counts.
SD