How do i start?

Well, coming from an aiming-to-be-author, I normally start by building the world first. Is it set in real life or a made up world entirely? When I have no starter ideas for the world I personally just make whatever comes to my mind first. Same with genre, honestly.

Then I build on other things such as (whether in a fictional world you made up yourself or a fictional version of the real world) religions or organizations, maybe species as well if you're a fantasy, sci-fi or horror writer.

With characters, I normally focus on making what will be the antagonist or 'villain' of the story first. If it's a person, don't just make them evil off the bat. Give them a reason. Were they betrayed? You know, the usual. The antagonist/villain doesn't necessarily have to be a person. It could be a disease or something. Depends on what kind of story you're writing.

Then I focus on main characters. Now, I don't exactly know if I can give actual advice for this, since everyone probably makes their characters differently. I, however, normally make the main character have some kind of ties to the antagonist/villain, if a person, rather than making them just hate them on the bat. Like, maybe an old friend or even a family member. Just go with the flow, that's what I do.

Making a story is kind of like going down a new river. You never know where it'll lead you until you get there. You just got to roll with it.


Hope at least some of this helps in some way :)

A story needs a beginning. I think beginnings are the easiest.. Then it needs some characters, some background, a scene. Give that person a goal, a direction, a purpose. Then you need to do the hard bit and figure out how this character goes from A to Z.. and there may be a lot of plot twists, or timelines, or crazy stuff going on.. whatever you want to write.. Its up to you. Let your fingers type it, keep going.. read it again the next day.. Improve it, throw out chapters and rewrite them until the story is what you want. Some people find all of this easy, some struggle with it. Like playing the guitar, it takes years to master, but everyone starts at the beginning.

I use AI book writing.. it's fabulous as a ghost writer creating characters and a plot.. using which you can create a script and start afresh as a new project and fine tune as many times.

But you need to give some input for the core of your story

I have a few stories at the top of my profile. They just popped into my head. Some were complete. Some, like The Perfect Man, I keep adding to. Usually something very emotional is going on in my life at the time and I think the stories are just an outlet. Probably going to be creating a new one soon.

Pick any narrowly defined subject that you know something about. Write a short story about it. Don't edit before you've finished the first draft. Don't worry about it being good. Just write it to completion. Enjoy that. Just enjoy the act if writing without judging yourself too much. Then do it again about some other subject. So that for a while and see if it starts your brain thinking of ideas to explore. Writing is being an explorer of ideas. Have fun with it.

Idk i want to write a story too someday