Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Yes. I was probably in the third grade when I created a space hero named James Shultz who was on some kind of mission against an evil galactic empire. He had to fly his spaceship through the enemy defenses, land on the "bad guy" station, and plant a bomb. He was good with his laser pistol and managed to get to the reactor core and set the bomb. If I recall, he had to fight his way back out and steal a bad guy fighter to get away, which he did just as the bomb went off.
What is your writing process?
An idea will occur to me - it could be anything - and I try to think of a twist on that idea. After that I fill in a couple of characters, who they are and what they want, then WHY they want what they want. I'll work out some scenes before and after that, then fill in the blanks.
Sometimes these ideas are main plots and sometimes secondaries. Sometimes they start as one and become the other. I'll wind the ideas around each other to see if they work together. If so, I'll start writing scenes. Then I'll flesh out some more and probably start over.
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