A woman waking from a nightmare fills my vision. What the...? Who is she? Wanting to know who this character is and what was going on with her, I begin to write.
That's the sort of writer I am. I see characters, learn a little about them and then my stories start. What sort of writer are you? Do you see characters, too, and have them at the start your story?
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If you're a Regency Romance writer, perhaps you see a landed gentleman, too arrogant and proud. And a young girl of good family prone to judging at first impression.
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If you write contemporary romance novels, maybe you imagine a travel book shop owner failing to make a success of his business meeting an actress succeeding in every movie part she portrays.
Are you a writer who visualises a setting? It may be a place that exists in reality or one that exists only in your imagination, but you imagine that setting and a story sparks to life.
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If Cozy Mysteries are your focus you may visit an English village and wonder about the secrets hidden behind closed doors and who of the residents would commit murder.
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If you write Paranormal Romance, maybe you see a fantasy world and you wonder about the mythical being and the human with preternatural abilities.
Maybe it's action or a conflict, the setting up of the plot, that takes place on your first page. You know who your characters are and what they will do in the situation they find themselves in, and what they will do next.
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If you're genre is Historical Romance and you love time-travel drama, you may visualise a married World War II nurse carried back in time to the Jacobite risings in 1743 Scotland and into the arms of Jamie Fraser, rebel Scottish Highlander.
Writers are all different and from talking to some and reading about others I learned there is no right way to start. Whether it's with character, setting or action plot is your choice. And it's these different choices that make each writer stories unique.
How do you write? What do you introduce first? Character, setting or action?
Love to love...how amazing imagination can be.
Love to laugh...when my imagination takes off on tangents at once unexpected yet so right!
Love to learn...how other writers write.
