Plotting stories: Utilising previous ideas
I love that moment when you include something in
a story that later on you find another use for. Sometimes it is back story for
your character that you randomly chose at the time but it becomes important to
the character later, sometimes it is world building that you realise can be
used for something else you hadn’t considered at the time, sometimes an object,
location or characterisation can be utilised again but each time it is a eureka
moment/a *fist pump* moment.
Why am I jumping up and down like a child who
has just got the toy she wanted? Well, I am doing a fantasy children’s story
and I have invented an island that one of the characters (a fairy) accidentally
gets teleported to which disappears when the mist comes in and people are never
seen again and the character in question has to make a quick exit.
THEN, I was plotting the end scenes when the
evil humans come to take over their land and thinking of ways the good guys
could have of defeating the humans and I suddenly thought of the mysterious
island and how some of the humans could have landed on the island and be there
when the mist comes in!
YES!! *big grin* I am wicked!
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