Don't Really Think Any Of My Ideas Were That Amazing But If You're Inspired Or Follow One Of My Premises Than Please Tell Me - Tumblr Posts
You can't really make something from nothing. My main OCS/original works were mostly created out of random character designs made for different homework tasks and somehow they slotted together nicely and dragged a story out of me. Basically I'm trying to say that starting from scratch is kind of impossible cuz if ya brains blank ya page will be the same. And no story has started from nothing! Spiderman came from Stan Lee looking at a fly on a wall and thinking 'that looks neat', just like how ancient people took things in nature and spun grand myths of gods and monsters. So grab anything, it could be something next to you or something you're interested in and then add something else, could be random, could be a word association. I'll do a random example on the spot. I'll look around me first, besides me I've got some thick sock-slippers, there's my face moisturiser, I'm lying done so I gotta look at my ceiling, there's a crack there with some flaking paint that I swear wasn't there yesterday, how on earth do cracks always appear like that? Is there like a wall crack fairy that visits houses during the night and attacks ceilings with lil' sickles Now I'm thinking about the actual reasons, it's cuz of the sessions and the drying and expanding of the earth but it's almost like houses breathe sometimes. They breathe out and sag forming cracks and they breathe in and those cracks close and then grind together until the render starts to blister outwards. Personifying a house is interesting, if these walls had eyes/could talk and all that. Writing a story told by a house would be a good way to explore a story through descriptions rather than dialogue. On the other hand what if it wasn't so much the house as someone stuck in place and unable to escape, a ghost reluctantly haunting the place of their death or maybe a noisy neighbour cursed by the neighbourhood witch to learn more about their neighbours than anyone should have to. Hehe neighbourhood witches sound fun. Maybe the noisy neighbour is the witch and they want to find out all your problems so they can make life easier on you, or harder, depending on what kind of neighbour you are. I really could keep going on and on… and on but you get the picture. A premise is your brain gallivanting so let it loose. Stop staring at that poor naked page and look around you! :)
Okay, does anyone have any advice for coming up with a premise from scratch? I try to brainstorm but I just get an error message. I think my brain needs to be rebooted or something.