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Style Sometimes deciding the style of a novel is the easiest thing to do. We get certain ways we write, certain voices we are used to, and we tend to ...

Characters When it comes to pre-writing you really need to explore your characters, figure out their relationships and motives. The protagonist and antagonist need the attention first, but the seconda

Plotting While all stories don't need to be plotted, it can be very useful to plot before you write so that you know where you're going, what needs to happen, ...

Welcome everyone who has joined! I'm really glad to see how many people have started to participate. I'm going to tag you guys just so you know this is updated ...

The challenges can be done at any time, and the information will always stay put so it's not like you couldn't go through and do this again and again with ...

Honestly I am among those that theorize pre-writing is any writing that happens while attempting to create things for a story that isn't actually putting things out as the story. ...

o.o you're not going to share your actual ideas? What if we could help? What if these things could develop the story in a way you never thought of or ...

That's a really interesting set of perimeters to make the book. Not only do you hedge off what they could possibly know about the adult population by making them teens, ...

The challenge order and suggested instructions are more guidelines than hard things. Please feel free to do what you want to prewrite YOUR way.

Ok, so I went on Seventh Sanctum and I used their generator for Evil-Sounding names and I'm going to use that to generate names for the humans in my story. ...

I really hate it when I can't control the things that happen down below like when I have to pee really really bad but I just can't seem to get ...

Character 1 Name: THIS CHARACTER NEEDS A NAME STILL, For now, He'll be called Jane Age: 24 Sex: Male Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Short Black Skin Color: Ocher/tan peach ...

SfS 2.0.png According to this plot that I just sort of made up on a whim, my plot will go something like this: (1,2) The pre-existing tension will be that ...

Well, right now there is a pre-planning event here which you could use to plan out multiple stories, or just an overarching story for this character. We'll be working on ...

Hey all! This is my prewriting journal. Feel free to comment or talk in here with me about ideas. I would love that. Right now I'm actually post-pre-writing kinda. I ...