User blog comment:Akasha1908/Fall of the White Lotus: Part 6/@comment-9482834-20130826123726/@comment-7383378-20130826234620

It's not easy, I can promise you that, lol!

My biggest piece of advice is to know how your story will end. If you don't know how it ends, you won't know how to start it.

As for me, I just write. I take a simple idea and build on it by asking myself a bunch of questions.

Example:  When I made the decision to kill Kazu, I asked myself questions like, How will he die? When will he die? Who is going to kill him and where? Who will be there when he dies? What will his death do to the other characters in the story? Then, I took the answers to those questions and built the scene for his death.

It might also help if you draft a brief outline of what you want to happen at the beginning, middle and end of your story. Then you can fill in the gaps with all you creativity.

And when all else fails, just write. You'd be suprised how many ideas come to you while you're writing.

I would like to end this by saying, I'm not really that good of a writer. There are others on this wiki way better than me, lol! I encourage you to talk to them, too. See what tricks they use in their writing.

Good luck and thanks for reading!

Oh, btw. Part 1 of the new arc will be out in a few days, I promise! Until then, you can take a look at the new fanfic I started.

http://ayakashi-ghost-guild.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Akasha1908/Fallen:_The_Beginning_of_the_End

It's a work in progress, so your feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks again, and I look forward to reading the story you come up with!