Tell me about your stories structure

[ueonts]

Do you have your story all planned out? What is the structure that it follows? I notice that some stories follow multiple perspectives while some only show one or things like that. What are the nitty gritty decisions you have made in your own story and why?

[Kuma]

I'm writing from an omniscient narrator standpoint, I jump between different storylines and characters, but keep a strong focus on the protagonists. I have a lot of the story planned out (some might say too much)

Through development the novel changed a lot. Originally it was almost completely different and through roughly 10 years of per-production in mutated into its current form. Characters changed a lot, some characters didn't exist in previous versions and even in the current published version I added some characters and removed others from what I planned after seeing how the story was developing.

I think having a flexible mindset is important for any ongoing series.

[Huiop]

I write an outline of events and kind of fill in the as they happen based on what my characters would do in those situations. If all else fails... I also can roll out a d20 and see what happens based on the events and their skills. Also, you have to decide if its in first person or third person. It's easier to write in first in my experience, but 3rd is a better way to show the whole story and cut away to other scenes.

[Lensing]

I write comic scripts and short stories with a punchline.
The short stories are based on a 12 panel structure, this means that the
story happens in 12 situations. It helps me a lot to work like that and
not get lost in adding too much crap to the story.

The comic scripts are less structured, I change the script while I draw
the pages. It´s a bit like improvising while playing a guitar solo.
I usually have some characters, a setting, basic theme, the end and
some situations which lead to the end and then I start to draw. Everything
can change during the drawing process

[llobucervallince]

figured out the whole plot of the first volume/season written the episodes 1,2,3 half of the 4 and 5 out of 10 episodes,

also planning out the second volume and an alternative comic of another OC related to this story (now that I say it, basically a spinoff)

also thought about 3 key points in the plot including the ending but I'm not sure how far away

[VersusVII]

I have all my main story written down. I followed the western 3 act structure that I studied at school, mixing it with the fairy yale structure (mostly for the character roles in the story).
I mostly follow the events through the protagonist's eyes, but sometimes I switch to other characters.

[ThunderChicken]

My first book is written in first-person format and follows a linear timeline. It is nonfiction and is based on real events, so the story follows those events from my point of view. Because it follows real events it is rather slow paced, the plot (and characters) evolving over a nearly 20 year time period.

My second book mainly follows the protagonist but does focus on some of the other characters in the parts where the protagonist disappeared for a while and in parts where different factions split off. This book follows a much faster pace: 36-48 hours pass between the opening of the story and the ending of book 1 (book 2 is now being written).

Both books were fully written before even a single episode was published on Tapas. This takes a lot of pressure off, because having them written leaves only the imagery and Tapas formatting (IE, selecting an appropriate place to cut off an episode close to, but not over, Tapas' 15,000 character episode limit) to worry about.

[Nilowiwi]

Well, I don't have a structure or plan to my story. It's more about the flow of my feelings on the day. Yeah, pretty strange haha.