Story Board Brainstorming & 'Mentor' Thread

Pickle:

Michelle, I have not done one damn thing to my two current stories. All I have done is work on that new one that I teased you with. I'm on chapter 7 now. The world has gone mad!

BYTHEWAY, I loved the recent chapter of "MFL".
I'm glad you started working on it again.

sampalletband:

iamkiller:

sampalletband:

All help for your stories can be found here, from finding a mentor to grammatical help to brainstorming for ideas. It's a place to learn and be creative with your peers.

there after running it through spell check...LOL

SPELL CHECK!
How old are you?

Old ENOUGH to know that I NEED spell check and it's MY friend

HAHAHA


*steals back in to correct my post*

Haha. I'll just use the GD pr0n against you

Pickle:

Well thank you. I never stopped working on it, I was just not in a position to update it. I'm working on. . .I think it is. . . chapter 22 or 23 right now and I am hoping to be nearing the end but there is so much drama to tie up I may have to go near 30 and I don't wanna.

Oh great. I'm so excited XD It's so awesome.

I have to mention that I love how funny BJ and Adrienne are in it. HAH.
BJ's drunk scene?

Pickle:

*lol*

Well I'm glad you're enjoying it. I wanted to make Billie Joe and Adrienne a real couple with real quirks to them. They're fun to write as well.

Oh they definitely are. I love writing about BJ because I feel like he can relate to soo many different types of characters.

I mean, if you wanted to make him evil it'd work for him.
Romantic? Dramatic? .. It all works.

iamkiller:

sampalletband:

iamkiller:

SPELL CHECK!
How old are you?

Old ENOUGH to know that I NEED spell check and it's MY friend

HAHAHA


*steals back in to correct my post*

Haha. I'll just use the GD pr0n against you

Don't tease

sampalletband:

iamkiller:

sampalletband:

iamkiller:

SPELL CHECK!
How old are you?

Old ENOUGH to know that I NEED spell check and it's MY friend

HAHAHA


*steals back in to correct my post*

Haha. I'll just use the GD pr0n against you

Don't tease

HAHAHAH. Alright

Pickle:

I just like a quirky element to my characters. I like to emphasize the flaws in them that make them great. They're not perfect by any means and I like to magnify that.

Yep. It's great Just having fun with the characters..

.. It makes your story more fun and convincing.

okay, i need help...

i have writer's block... . my story, captivated (sequel to hostage) has 9 parts, and i'm having trouble qith the 10th.

any volunteers to read it an help?

the_tension:

okay, i need help...

i have writer's block... . my story, captivated (sequel to hostage) has 9 parts, and i'm having trouble qith the 10th.

any volunteers to read it an help?

Sure.

Handguns For Hearts:

the_tension:

okay, i need help...

i have writer's block... . my story, captivated (sequel to hostage) has 9 parts, and i'm having trouble qith the 10th.

any volunteers to read it an help?

Sure.

thanks

the_tension:

Handguns For Hearts:

the_tension:

okay, i need help...

i have writer's block... . my story, captivated (sequel to hostage) has 9 parts, and i'm having trouble qith the 10th.

any volunteers to read it an help?

Sure.

thanks

Okay, I'll read. Maybe I can help with some ideas.

Handguns For Hearts:

the_tension:

Handguns For Hearts:

the_tension:

okay, i need help...

i have writer's block... . my story, captivated (sequel to hostage) has 9 parts, and i'm having trouble qith the 10th.

any volunteers to read it an help?

Sure.

thanks

Okay, I'll read. Maybe I can help with some ideas.

okay

Question for everyone:

When you're coming up with an OC, how do you like to come up with them? Like, where do you get their characteristics from?

I draw alot of my OCs personality from myself.

Sorry if the question's confusing.

I usually like to get characteristics out of real people, so that the character seems real. I always like to over-analyze everything, so for example, when coming up with Whatsername's character for my story (yes, I knwo some of Whatsername's characteristics are said on American Idiot and stuff, but you only get Jesus/Jimmy's view of her, in my story I had to come up with her opinions on herself and the iage she has of herself and it's nothing ALIKE J.'s view) I started to figure out her family, the place where she lived, and what everything was like in her world so I could get the basics of her characteristics from her roots, like we all have different personalities based on the way we were raised and where we were raised and everything. Then I think of which characteristics of real persons around me I think that would suit her and who she is. Sometimes (depends on the character and its roots) a lot of the characteristics I come up with are mine, based on the way I am. Sometimes I take it all from other people's personality and characteristics, but I don't like to base the character on the characteristics of just one or two different persons, that'd take a lot of the credit of the story away from me. By taking characteristics of a lot of different persons (and some are just made up, or got from no-one I know), you have to find a way to make the character have a serie of believes that all fit together, so it seems real, but also give them some self-contradictory thoughts, otherwise they wouldn't seem real anyways.

I hope the answer wasn't cofusing.

And I just read all the ideas about the subforum. I think I love At the Library as the name and I also like a lot the description that Michelle came up with.

Not confusing at all.

And was it of any help?