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@michael-erasmus I almost always start with the premise, but not plot. The premise is normally something like “What if Beauty and the Beast was told from the POV of the enchantress?” Or a line of prose or dialogue comes to me and I think, “Whoa. What’s the story where this line happens?” Recently it was, “Does that make her the Beauty or the Beast?” You may be sensing a theme in my story ideas.

Fleshing out the “What kind of story does this moment I’m picturing happen in?” gives me a couple of characters and a good sense of the world. Plot/theme comes last. I can know the characters and the beginning and end of my story pretty quickly but have no idea what happens in the middle.