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Writer's block. Please help?
Hello.
I already have the characters, but I have no plot.
Robin Matthews is the main character. (I'm writing a kid's book). She's a ten-year-old girl, the second youngest of five: Arthur Matthews [fifteen-years-old], the twins Michael and Pamela Matthews [both thirteen-years-old], and then her younger silbing, Keith Matthews [five-years-old].
Robin is a tomboy [like her sister, Pamela], and loves to skate. She likes showing off to her neighbors who are her age and mostly girly girls who wear fake jewelry and dresses and like to play princess. Robin has a friend, Johnny, who goes to school with her and is very shy and quiet unlike Robin who is outgoing and noisy. Robin eventually becomes friends with a girly girl on her street named Autumn Tyler who is friends with Robin's enemy, Judith Pearl.
I can't think of a plot, though... Please help? :]
4 Answers
- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Start picking at the interactions between the characters. Why are Judith and Robin enemies? Why do both become friends with Autumn? Will they ever get along, or does Autumn have to pick a side? How do Robin's siblings affect her? Why are Robin and Johnny friends? How do their personalities affect one another? How does Robin's friendship with Autumn affect that with Johnny? Do Johnny and Judith know or have any beef with one another?
Or, alternatively, you can always have a giant squid show up. It's fair enough in a sci-fi book, but then why spend so much effort on their characterizations and interaction?
Source(s): "Squid on the Mantlepiece" is defined under Part Two here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurkeyC... Basically, it's where a plot twist overpowers what might have been foreshadowed from the earlier part. - 1 decade ago
Just some quick advice, in the future, I'd try to think of a plot before you think of characters, typically, it works much better...no offense...
Maybe think about something that interested you as a younger child, something that inspired you to create these characters...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Too many characters, have a little sister and a big brother, The little sister is scared of the dark and the little brother goes through many lengths to conquer her fear, and in the end she does.
- 1 decade ago
why not do a sad, life lesson story? like bridge to terabitha (sorry if that's spelled wrong)?
