Slan
Since: Nov, 2010
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SandJosieph
Since: Dec, 2009
#5: Nov 25th 2010 at 12:34:58 PM
If you want some idea on how to start off the first few scenes, I started my story by showing the heroine filling out some job applications in her room (accidentally punching a hole through one of them) and her friend calls her up, inviting her to the lab. Sure it had very little to do with the main story but it was a start.
#6: Nov 26th 2010 at 5:52:08 AM
One rule of thumb is to begin your story with the widest canvas you will use during the story. If the story begins and ends in a closet, you don't need to show any more than the closet. If the story is about global domination, your canvas is an entire planet. You can then zoom in on one country, one city, one character.
Under World. It rocks!
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Ok so I got my races, my nations, and the reason for the conflict.
Ok maybe I haven't reveal the cause for the conflict yet.
In recent events, they have discovered long lost artifacts that contain powers far beyond the capability of any mortal. Powers that can bring eternal peace to the world, in two very different ways.
This race to unearth, unlock, and control these artifacts has lead to territorial disputes that resulted in a various terrorist attacks on the superpowers and the death of the leaders of two of the nations.
Unable to reconcile their conflicts, all four nations declared war on each other.
Now how kick things off.