![]() New settings can also bring forth new conflict ideas for your story, which is super important. ![]() You can think of nature and environment, but also specific physical locations like villages or cities. ![]() (By the way, I have written about writing seasons for your story setting, if you need more help with settings and how to describe places.)Īny ideas that are vaguely related to your setting are worth writing down. What year is it? Is it a real place or fictional? Does winter last an unusually long time? Do they use women just to make babies for other women? These are also a part of your story setting. The playlists can also be used later on when you’re actually writing the story! Coming up with your story setting while brainstorming story ideasīasically, setting is where your story takes place, but it’s also the other details of your story world. Making a playlist for your story even before you’re totally sure what the story is about can be a powerful tool for getting you in the right headspace of figuring out the rest. How do you want your readers to feel when they read your story? Scared or cozy? Do you have a certain feel about a character or a place? Write all these things down (or use the pictures) and start building from there. You can create one with your own little hands by cutting pictures from a magazine and taping them to a cardboard, but you could go the easy way and create a Pinterest board or use any kind of collage-making app. My printables have spaces for your story’s playlist as well as for what has inspired it (is it like Totoro for adults? Star Wars but not in space?) but the best thing to do at this phase of brainstorming is to make a moodboard. Maybe you have an idea about how you want your story to feel like, and I’ll be honest, this is probably easiest to describe with things other than words. (You can find more brainstorming ideas in my Scapple review!) Moods and vibes ![]() This is why I made myself these novel brainstorming printables, because if I can’t help myself plan my next novel, who CAN I help? You can find the printables here, and this post is about how to brainstorm your next novel, with or without the printables. I do have some very vague ideas, feels and vibes, but that’s pretty much it. I finished my book last spring and although I did make a conscious decision not to start writing anything until autumn, it still feels kinda wrong to not have something to work on or to even have an idea what I might start working on. If you don’t know where to start writing a book, you might just not have enough of your ideas easily accessible in front of you! What to do when you’ve got an idea for your story but still no actual story? You start brainstorming story ideas, and you do that by actually jotting down all the ideas you have instead of letting them sit in your brain doing nothing. ![]()
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