Thread:User talk:An American Nihilist/Writing advice

when you do the backstory or just write events and stuff, don't have 0 concrete goal in mind. i had my funnest writing events when i didn't have anywhere in particular to be in the story; because i didn't have any pre-set events to build into; like i did when i did the original 2 thousand years of backstory, i knew i had to get from Henai Kingdom to the Year of Masuke, and everything had to fit into that plan. LAter when i was doing post 13 AM stuff i didn't initially have anywhere to go, just some vague ideas of a story set a century later, so i had more fun, after that i figured "whbat the hell, get masuke back in". from there; i just wrote. i admit i stole a lot of french history but, eh.

so, to tl;dr that rambling; dont make events preset, let the story flow naturally as you come up with it, it makes the writing so much more fun.