Story making/In other words I ramble for a while...

Hello again. This morning I awoke to the sound of rain smashing down on the tin roof, and if that wouldn't wake you: nothing will...

I still have no idea what I'm doing, but I guess that's how we all start out. I am still looking for someone to publish my book, and my plan is to send my book to as many publishers as possible in hope that one will take it. I know getting published is a low chance, I mean: no one knows about me, no one knows of my books, and its hard to start off with nothing. I'm not going to lie, I am afraid. This is new territory I have never entered in my life.

My life has been easy, growing up I thought the hardest thing I would ever do was making friends, and in a way that's still hard. But nope, being an adult is way harder than I ever thought, and I haven't even started. I thought doing dishes every night made my life hard. Pffftt, nah uh.

I want to succeed, and you know what: I will, because I will work for this one thing I want, but I also need to remember that I can't do it without my family and friends. I'll be sure not to bury myself in my work and forget that they are there, there for me. But, holy crap: this is gonna be a journey....


Anyway. I thought I'd tell you how I create my stories.

I always, always start with a character, usually the main character and after I have a reason for him or her to be around I create his/her family, or friends.
For a plot I tend to look for something fun, and exciting: adventure like. Most times, it's something I wish I could be a part of, and writing it make it's seem like I am. I write about adventures I can't have... You know, because half the time it doesn't exist. But hey, a girl can dream!

For an example, I have always loved the idea of a being a dragon rider of sorts, or a dragon racer. And of course this idea is inspired by 'How to train your dragon 2' and that old TV show I used to watch as a kid 'Dragon Booster', but I change the idea in to something that's so different it becomes mine.

So, I created a character, and the way I do this quickly is taking from my character list. The list is a mental thing, basically its a list of ideas for characters I plan to use later. And, I've always wanted a Scottish character with red fluffy hair. And Ruby was born! It is a dragon racing story, so I need a dragon, duh. And Trion was then created. And this story you can hear the thoughts of the Dragons so you get two sides of the story.

Trion is a sweet, gentle ice dragon. But in my world Ice dragons are not known for their speed (for an extra bit of drama, I love drama, makes me all giddy).
Anywho, Trion does everything he can to be a great racer for Ruby.

Ruby is strong, spunky, and absolutely adores Dragons. And ever since she was a child she has been watching Dragon racing. Dragon racing is hard, and dangerous, it takes a lot of skill to compete and survive.

Sorry, went a little off track there. The story is slowly becoming interesting, and so I need friends for Ruby: Ashton, and Mia two more Dragon racers. But, you need to give them reason for existing and not just extra words in your book. Ashton can have a crush on Ruby, be there for her, and maybe his dragon becomes a big part of Trion's motivation to be a racer, and Mia can be her best friend, maybe the one who tells her the truth about the danger of trying to teach an Ice dragon to be a racer?

Another thing I like to add is some sort of sadness, and this happens at the beginning. There's this little dragon egg market for cadets for racing, but Ruby doesn't get a dragon. Disappointed, she goes for a walk in the forest- and yes finds a dragon, but it's not like 'How to train your dragon'- she hears a giant racket and climbs a tree only to see two massive dragons: one ice and the other red fighting in the sky. She watches horrified and then out of instinct left her tree and ran towards the area the dragons are fighting over. Its this huge clearing where three large dragon eggs lie.

Confused on what to do, she stands there and waits, but this allows smaller red dragons to run in and steal two of the eggs for food. She manages to get in the way of the last egg stopping the smaller baby red from stealing it. After that the ice dragon falls from the sky and the red bites deep into her neck and then left once satisfied.

Ruby rushes over with the last egg firmly in her grasp and tries her best to comfort the mama ice dragon. She's bleeding profusely, and it's clear she's not going to make it. Ruby puts the egg in front of her, but the mama ice dragon doesn't take it, instead she pushes her egg back into Ruby's arms. At this point, Ruby is crying as the Dragon looks deep into her eyes as if to thank her for protecting her last baby.

Yeap, little bit of sadness. Who doesn't love that? Now, I am not a sociopath, I don't like writing sad bits, because it most definitely makes me cry. But, it gets a story going. Ruby now has this responsibility for this baby egg. Though, she still trains it to race, so still tad bit selfish and she doesn't exactly realize.. But that's drama for later in the story!

See! I already have extra content to write about, and can work up to it. Who knows, maybe Trion gets hurt and she sees that he is not fit for racing, but he will never give up because he believes its what he wants.

Tada! It's pretty easy.

Well, for me. I have no idea how else to do it, but I know everyone has their own way of creating stories, and honestly I would love to know about it, and maybe even try it?  

So far we have characters, main character's ideas, and wants and responsibility. Ruby will grow with Trion and will learn things about racing and just the teaching part is extra content- Learning to fly, wearing a saddle, holding on, and making sure his rider hasn't fallen off.
Now, learning to fly has so many branches to it as it is.

Okay, now I need a douche bag, someone no one will like and some one to get in the way of my main character, maybe a large competitor? She could get pretty good with her dragon and scare him, and maybe he goes after her to stop her from racing? Don't know. I don't really need a bad guy for this story, the learning and doing the racing is enough. The bad guy is just something you can add if you so desire. 

The big thing of the story happens near the middle, where Ruby gets hurt or maybe Trion does when racing, he awakes in bandages and Ruby putting the saddle away, and then probably fights it and pushes her for his wants to be a racer and won't let his disability stop him from achieving his dream.

The ending of these kinds of stories is usually they win barely, or they win out front, or they don't win at all but learn a meaningful lesson: like inside 'Cars' where Lightning McQueen realizes that winning isn't everything, and he goes back for The King to help him finish his race so he wouldn't have to go through what Doc Hudson did.

That was a mouthful.

I can think for hours on what I want my end to be, cliche or not it's gonna happen if I want a full book on this. I can come up with a different lesson for them to learn, maybe instead of winning something happens where Ruby falls off Trion and he goes down to save her and the crowd goes silent until they swoop back up or something like that. Maybe if there is a bad guy he can win, but he could've been the reason why Ruby fell off?

Again, it'll take some thought. But something I learned from James Patterson is the beginning of a story should reflect on the end of the story.

With this story it feels like a one book kind of thing, but I can branch off and think about what happens when she's an adult, maybe she doesn't stay with racing? That's something I can think about. And what I've learned about publishers is that they want books with potential for more books, which means more money for them. But, don't quote me on that, because I am not a publisher, and I don't actually know what they want, which is also something I should probably learn... Oh boy.

Okay, I think that's enough for now. I might talk more on that or not, dunno.

Feel free to ask questions.. Also: don't steal my idea... Ba bye