I'm having trouble getting my two characters to meet & be around each other

@J.Z.Castillo J. Z. Castillo
Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:04:45 +0000

@J.Z.Castillo wrote:

If one of them is from the sea and the other from the land and you want the story to take place on land just make the marine character infatuated with the surface, then meets the terrestrial character and they become attracted to them (romantically or platonically it's up to you). It's an easy fix since I don't know much about your story.

You can also make the marine character kind of resentful towards their civilization, or something like that, and then leaves to land and since they don't know anything they get into some sort of trouble and then terrestrial character saves them. Marine character feels indebted to terrestrial character so they decide to go on a journey. Story begins from there.

I feel like these type of stories are pretty easy to come up with a reason to have these characters that come from different (fantastical) backgrounds be together. Look at the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings and how these different races and characters interact to form a group with a single main goal.