Starting A Story

[Gravity]

Alright, so I've finished my story AWKOL, and I'm getting ready to start my new one and I got to thinking. What is for you writers out there, the hardest part about starting a new story?

Is there anything you dread? Is there anything you look forward to? Do you ever ask yourself why you're doing it again?? (LOL just kidding, I'm in a mood today I tells ya!)

Seriously though, for me, the beginning is always rough because you've gotta find your flow and get past the inital set up and intro to the characters and the background. Then you've got to kind of...develop some kind of rapport with your characters and really get into their heads so that you can tell their story.

I'm just curious, what else is hard for you? And actually, what's hard for the readers when it comes to starting a story?

I hate intro's I have to admit, and I can't stand when it takes forever to get to the good stuff, altho I'm guilty of it with my last story I know, I'm a hipocrate! LOLOL!

[summer8522]

I actually dont find the initial setup that hard. For me it is once you are past the first chapter setup, its moving onto the actual story that I always get stumped on slightly...

Like I have an original story that I have been stuck on for like two years now and it is JUST starting to come along!!

[Julie]

^ That's exactly what I was going to say. Starting is still the hardest part, but I find that once I get the first sentence out of the way, I like writing the very beginning... kinda setting up the opening scene, introducing the characters, and whatnot. The hardest part for me is going from that onto the actual story, like you said. I'll get an opening scene I really like, but then I'm like, "Now what?" Or I know what and just don't feel like writing it because it's boring LOL. That's where I'm at with the Broken novel right now.

[lokinickfan8467]

lol same for me its good for me to start but to continue thats the hard part

[jellicle]

Well it depends on the kind of the story that i want to work on. Usually, I have the stories where the characters already know each other so it's more easier for me to write the usual things happening and everyday stuff.

But the story that I'm working on right now, I'm desperately trying to find a good scene where the two characters met and everything I come up with sounds too corny. For some reason. So for me, the part where I need to explain how the characters met is that hardest part. I try to get osme influence from my own life but I have met several people so unbelievably that when I come to write them down, they sound very unreal, though they are real.

[Shauna]

For me it's connecting the pieces lol. Usually, my stories develop from random scenes I've thought up and I have to figure how they fit together.

[Gravity]

I just can't seem to get started on my story! UGH! I hate that feeling of seeing the blank page and the chapter one. UGH! I need to just do it, but I feel so lost, I've already started my outline, but the beginning is always boring and bleh!

[Mandah]

depending on the story, trying to make the readers interested at first glance so they don't get immediately bored and skim down to an exciting part in the story. Has to be able to hook people.

[Karina]

lol.
im still trying to find a good meeting for my charactors, i have the main idea and stuff but everything sounds so corny, and i am NOT gonna go with girl gets a record deal crap like i was gonna at first. lol