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I usually end up starting with characters, since I love nothing more than creating a completely new character with a unique personality, interesting character design, and backstory. I adore delving into a character’s story and finding out their fatal flaws, their I usually will create two or three characters at a time, and then based on the attributes and abilities I give them, assign them a plot and let them run.

I also get inspired by lots of different plots in general, and if I really love a plot line or an event that happens in another book/game/movie, I apply it to one of my stories, or a completely new story, and then revamp it to create an original idea, while still keeping the elements I gained my inspiration from. I sometime involve real life experiences in my plots too.

For example: my siblings and I have been playing a video game recently where one of the characters falls asleep and is hidden away from the world for a eleven years. I thought that would be really interesting to play with the idea of time and having a new character of mine  stay the same age while he sleeps, which worked well with one of my WIPs where time is super messed up between all the dimensions of the universe. Thus, the attachment plot/storyline, Aegis, to my WIP, Valeria, was born.

(I told myself I not to get attached, but look how far that got me*le sigh*) I should know by now that if I create another story it’ll be incorporated into my universe and become canon. It’s a wonderful but a brain implosion inducing problem to have honestly.

But yeah, for me, a story can really start with anything, but it usually comes from a character or three or a plot inspired by something else made original. 🙂