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Authors, how do you come up with a plot line? Do you have any tips in general?

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    • One-EyedKing

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    I tried my first attempt at writing a while ago and, if I'm being honest, it was pretty bad. To Improve I asked for some tips on what to avoid on Reddit that actually taught me some things and the main thing I learned was that writing needs a purpose or a plot line. (Or at least I do. I've been re-writing the introduction to my fic over and over again and gaining no progress in the actual story)

    I'm trying to not become an author that uploads once every few months and I'm failing at it because I have no idea what to do. It's not that I don't have ideas, I can think of a few things that would be interesting but I don't know how to implement them. How would I work up to that point in the story? Why would the MC suddenly encounter a threat?(Thug, monster, cape, etc) When I decide to write an event do I just say "plot" as the reason why they're meeting a person so early on without any rep? Do I just brush over the details of how the MC found the person or place they wanted to find or how or why they're encountering them?

    Stuff like that is what causes me to be stuck on just the intro.

    Really, any tip helps. Even if it's something basic or something you think that I would already know, leave a reply telling me what it is. I have no one to help me learn how to write and I don't remember anything from my English classes besides the basics like person, place, thing = Noun.

    Note: If this isn't where this is supposed to go please let me know and I'll move it to the right place or delete it.
     
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