The Writer's Ranting Thread šŸ–Š šŸ“

I’m working on one of my other stories and im thinking of changing like a major plot point back to how I originally thought of it. I haven’t really written anything yet cuz it’s all in my head.

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Oooooh… may I ask why you’re thinking this?

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Well basically I really love the idea of curses and I wanted to make a storyline where the MC is a part of this magical family and they have these super cool abilities but then she’s the odd one out because she’s cursed (lol thought of this story long before Encanto) my original idea was that it turns out she was actually never cursed in the first place.

Then I wanted to actually make her cursed but the curse didn’t really make sense. I needed some way for her to leave home and work for the LI, so I thought ā€œwhat if she’s this time shifter who’s cursed to randomly travel to different dimensionsā€ but then that seemed like too much and I thought I’d have some major plot holes and might have to include the whole ā€œit was all a dreamā€ thing and I didn’t want to do that.

So then I was like: what if she’s cursed so that everyone will forget about her? Until she meets like true love at least. But then I didn’t want to go heavy on the ā€œtrue loveā€ trope and although I’m still leaning towards this I don’t think it would work. Like, it works for her family to forget about her but like it’d be weird to have others in that world do so.

So now I’m back at square 1 with them thinking she’s cursed, but she’s not. But I’m still trying to decide how she gets to the LI because I want her to do that when she’s young, but her family isn’t exactly evil I want to make them nice. So I’m still stuck, essentially.

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As you should!

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What?

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It’s good you’re not using it!

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Ooooooooh… Yeah, got it now.

How’s your story going?

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I’m on episode 8. Stuck on a scene…

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I’m writing an enemies to lovers romcom and the MC and LI were rivals in high school, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why :woman_facepalming:

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What’s the scene?

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What are their personalities?

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I just introduced two new characters- I’ll pm you

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They’re both extremely competitive. The MC is a perfectionist and a little judgmental, and the LI has an ego and is kind of bossy.

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Well, maybe both competing for the same thing. Like a sporting competition or something, or perhaps both aiming for a prize trip to somewhere, or just vying for the same teacher’s attention.

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I’ve got some ideas that I would love to write into full stories, but I have no idea how to make them happen.

I know who my main characters are, the general premise, and where I want it to end, but I never know what the middle should be.

It’s so frustrating which makes it harder to take the idea beyond just being some notes from as I had the idea in the first place…

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Why don’t you start a thread or something, and get the forums to help you with ideas?

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I can help
If u want

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Ooh, I like those ideas!

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HEHEHE. YAY! Happy to help. I love coming up with ideas. (heart_eyes)

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I can help you!

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