I put the sci fi story away for now (at least I thought I did) because it was just going around in circles and the worlds kept expanding, aaaannnnnn….the plot was so, um, not plotty.
I can’t nail the plot down so I put the book away to work on other projects (how many do you have Loretta? omg) because I couldn’t get the plot, completely, worked out. I have a basic idea, but the details are foggy. Can’t get anything concrete like the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
And if you don’t have a beginning then it won’t get started. If you don’t have a middle, what are the meaty bits of the story? And without an end why even bother writing it?
I may need to work on the character workups to get them firm before I continue with the story. But that’s only speculation at this time.
There are a lot of groups of peoples spread out over different parts of this universe that interact with each other and they are crucial to the story. And then there are the space colonies, ships, and stations that all need to be worked up that is keeping me in the weeds too much. 😒
Auto Crit, the “Write Better. Right Now” website I’ve been using for writing and editing my writing, has a new inspiration studio that helps you with story structure. And it’s been amazing on giving me ideas on another plot of another book that I don’t like and really need to work out. I started using the inspiration part of it to give me possible ideas of the plot.
The editing software on this site is amazing in itself, but when they added the inspiration studio, it’s like OMG WHAT? But that’s only part of this website! The editing part of it breaks everything down into details and there are reports you can generate to help you find the gaping black holes of ‘wtheck is this’ of plot and story.
Yeah, I have new stories because of the inspiration studio because you give it one thing and it gives you a multitude of other things to change and/or improve your one idea. Yeah. game changer! But I saved them on the writing desk and will get to them later.
Right now, I have one new book and two other books that need a lot of work, so I think this website is going to be my new besty.
Read ya later!
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