Week 1 - How to Create an Initial Outline
Notes
1. Write down your ideas
- Characters, timelines, and scenes
- Write down ideas that excite you
- Ask questions to fill in gaps
2. Draw the plot using your ideas
- Fill in the gaps
- Add details
- Include explanations
3. Add scenes, supporting characters, and logic
- Add details
- Determine the character
- Organize the outline
- Unleash your imagination
- Create scenes
Ideas:
A sickness has infected the Earth and there are two sides
The Celestials are technologically advanced and influenced by the Four Main Elements
The Elementals are evolved and work with the Four Main Elements
The Celestials believe in surviving and taking what they can
The Elementals believe in letting the Earth stay completely natural
The Elementals and the Celestials once lived together but a fight between them that ended up in the m******e of their leaders.
The Elementals and the Celestials now live apart and remain in war
The only member of the royal family remains in hiding
The girl knows who she is but doesn't want to be royal after her families death
The girl also has the power to end the war but still hides
The Princess is protected by one of her professors but then must be tested without any choice and is discovered
The Princess is now forced into the court and has no choice but to accommodate and confront both the war and the loss of her family
The Celestials trigger their abilities trough death so when people are recruited to the Celestial Guard are killed and triggered before they start their official training
The Celestial storyline will follow a recruits story
The two characters meet together and form a friendship and a new era
Questions
Should both characters be females?
What actually happened to create the war?
What are going to be the differences between the real world and this world?
How does the two characters actually meet?
Do the two characters become romantically involved?
How does that effect the storyline
Fill in Gaps
Yes, both characters are female
The two sides had a disagreement about the starting pandemic and some how, it caused a massacre
Needs more thought...
Needs more thought...
They meet during a battle
The story implies a relationship after the fact
Add Details and Characters
The two meet when Kaitlynn mistakes Raven for her for an Elemental
Add small hints and little things that make people suspect and/or ship
The two barely get along in the beginning but have the same goal
Eventually, things change between them and a relationship is implied but it's a slow burn and ONLY implied
The school professors
The Elemental Councilors
Raven
Kaitlynn
The Elemental Royal Family
Raven's friend
Raven family
Kaitlynn's friend
Kaitlynn's guardian (who is a professor and council member)
Kaitlynn's friend
Castle's members that Kaitlynn interacts with on a daily or regular basis