Thread:Ronaldo Smith/@comment-25864802-20150715222414/@comment-26462356-20150715223659

Well, I can tell you what works for me. I have no idea if it will work for you or not though. You have to try different techniques until you find the one that is best for you.

My technique:

I decide who the main characters are going to be.

I watch a bunch of episodes that feature those charcters, paying careful attention to them, trying to capture their way of thinking in my head.

I decide on what the starting circumstances are for my story. I also think about what some of the possible paths might be for the story. I still try to keep it fairly simple though.

I then imagine the characters in my head in that starting situation, and let them tell me what to write. They very often come up with new paths for the story that I had not thought of before.

Finally I rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. Ever story goes through at least four rewrites, usually more. I always let the characters tell me how to rewrite it though.

So, that is my method, and it may sound a bit strange, but it works for me.