I only recently started working on my novel and so far the ideas have just been flowing. It's going to be a contemporary fantasy. I don't have enough of it figured out to really give a decent synopsis of it, but essentially there are demons from another dimension who exist on a plane that only certain people can see. There's an academy on an island hidden from normal people where people with this ability train in magic (sort of) to beat these demons, and the story revolves around a girl who suddenly finds out she's the reincarnation of one of the original warriors (the warriors against the demons, that is) and that the soul chose her to basically lead one of the groups of warriors at the school. Like I said, it's not a very good synopsis but I haven't figured out how to weave all of the other bits and pieces into it yet.
So far I think I've formed a decent portion of what I want the story to be and I've turned to working on world building but I've found I'm running into some problems. There are certain aspects of my story, both with world building and with the the characters, where I'm struggling to figure out how I want them to be. And I'm not sure how to move around these things and continue on with planning when I don't know these things. I guess I'm a little worried that if I move on without figuring these things out first, I might have to do a lot of work to change things to fit the ideas later. I have a friend who is usually willing to talk these things through with me but she just left on a long cruise where she won't be able to contact me, and now I'm kind of stuck.
So, long story short, I was wondering, what do you normally do when you're stuck on an idea? I find that if I can talk the ideas through with someone I can usually find a solution but I'm at a loss for that right now. What do you, as fellow writers, normally do when you're stuck on an idea that you just can't seem to figure out?
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