I’ve kinda always gone about building a story backwards. Like I have characters- what are they doing here?
In music class, we were listening to The Erlking by shubart and I did a little doodle on my notes of a shadow creature on a throne with a tempting fruit hanging above to children- it was all dark and shadows and stick figures- writer not artist- and after class I looked at it… why are these kids going towards this creature… whT really is is creature- by the end of the day I had a basic idea for my story and the dark creature the kids were going to in the woods. Then I built the world and events around the characters because they helped inspire the what where and why- because I already had my Who’s.
I always seem to get my characters first.
Is it not generally good to do it this way or is it more a style preference/ not a wrong or right way as long as plot goes to A-B and doesn’t break story telling rules?
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