What if we have concepts for characters as well as a setting, but no ideas for personalities? Like I've got this thing about two twins, a boy and a girl, who join a guy who seems to be a god who has forggoten his origins, and even his name on journey where they discover All Myths Are True.
Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up... But Is It That Great Now?... Also I'm Skylark2 now.^^ Strange, I've had an idea bouncing around where trauma is a prerequisite for superpowers.
^ Do you need personalities for the boy, the girl, or the god?
Boy and girl.
Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up... But Is It That Great Now?... Also I'm Skylark2 now.How about one twin is a Cloud Cuckoolander Spanner in the Works and the other is a non-villainous Chessmaster who can actually predict what his/her twin will do?
If I'm asking for advice on a story idea, don't tell me it can't be done.That sounds cool, and for your setting maybe there's a cabal that brutalizes kids to make superhumans for their schemes.
Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up... But Is It That Great Now?... Also I'm Skylark2 now.
OK, each story has a setting, plot, and characters. But I'm sure most writers have some ideas that are missing one or more of those elements. Here, we post those ideas and try to combine them - one author's characters without a setting get put in another author's setting without characters. If the combination works well, try to write it!
I'll start it off with an orphaned setting:
A world where superpowers are gotten by a kid with a certain genetic predisposition undergoing severe trauma over a lengthy period of time before puberty. As a result, most superpowered kids have psychological issues related to trauma, which explains why a lot of them are causing mayhem.
If I'm asking for advice on a story idea, don't tell me it can't be done.