How do you plan a story?

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That’s a cool way to browse themes you want to write about!

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Yeah I feel like I can only see so far ahead, like I know a few things that will happen somewhere but a lot of it is a misty trail :joy: I have to figure it out as I go along and get closer to seeing the signposts lol

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It’s a great way to generate ideas for challenges and conflicts for the character to face.

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Yeah I like that idea of building it up using that, it seems fun

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If you’re Cheapy the Cheapskate, you can use an online tarot generator. No really, that’s a thing.

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That’s cool, and pretty useful

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You’re welcome!

SD

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I don’t plan until I get to the final drafts so there’s some sense of order :sweat_smile: Everything else just comes as it does

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Do you write a quick first draft and then expand it in later drafts with planning, or how does that first draft look?

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The first draft is honestly just a word dump. Most of it doesn’t make it to the final story :joy:

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Fair enough, at least it serves the purpose of helping you get an idea for what you do and don’t want to do with the next draft

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Exactly. Which is what a first draft is meant to be anyway

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True. But I always get sucked into trying to make the first draft as good as it can be instead of just telling myself the story

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DON’T FALL INTO THE TRAP!!!
YOU’LL NEVER LEAVE, YOU’LL STAY STUCK IN A VOID OF PERFECTION!!!

LET GO, MY FRIEND, JUST LET IT GO!!!

Sorry for yelling!

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I’m trying to let go, but it’s the biggest challenge to just relax about it and just write

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Yeah, I understand.

With me, some days I just write, but other times I write and edit my first draft.

Like I forget and try not to hold myself accountable for it.
LOL!

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Yeah the fight to make every sentence make sense and sound good and be worthy of keeping so you only have to make sure there aren’t typos and just making a few tweaks in editing is so evil lmao. But sometimes it’s that or do nothing.

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True, true.

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Your first draft will never be good or perfect. That was the first thing we learnt in university. You worry about all the other stuff and having it make sense after the first draft

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Of course. It’s just getting over perfectionism, but I’m trying my best.

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