Behind A Story/chapter/scene

[Emi GS]

Hey everyone...

 

I have always wondered what might have impressed an author; which made him to write a particular story or chapter. And always thinks how an author must have done his hard work or home work to write his/her story or particular chapter. So to share that kind of things I have started this forum topic.

 

As for mine, I'll share something about one of my story too. It's about "First Love". It's successfully completed( ) five chapters and the new chapter is in progress. For the new chapter I have done so much home work. I have involved an artist and his work in the chapter. I interviewed him and done a lot work for the interview and well as visited some sites to know more about his art and all. It looks simple as I was writing this all, but it's really hard work.

 

So what's your story behind the story you have written. Let me know...

Edited March 6, 2017 by Emi GS

[William King]

It's exactly like Dennis said, in a word - inspiration. It could come from anywhere at anytime. There are some chapters in my books based on experience, often changed around a bit. I could be more specific if I took a chapter from one of my books, but I don't want to bore you with detail. After all, who the hell's interested in my life - and if you are, you can read about it - I'm always there in my stories

[Emi GS]

Also...A thing we left out of the list, but it's also one of the usual inspirations...The stories written about/around certain events that never happened, but the writer has a kind of desire to see it happen. And that desire grows strong enough to push him or her to write about it.

Some writers kill someone they know in the story they write. In the sense they make a character based on the person they don't like, and that character has to die. There's a lot of interesting stories with a handful of more interesting stories behind them. Why not share some chapters, and explanations about how it came to life, or which parts are real, and such?

The inspiration idea is good. I appreciate whoever share their inspirations for particular story or chapter or a scene.

 

Davis, my dear, not every writer kill or build to kill a character just because of they hate someone. Sometimes they kill characters even though they are good and important for the story and yet they have kill the character for the story.

 

If you want you can check out my one of the story Suicide Note's fifth chapter 'My Little Al'. I killed little Al for a reason, which gonna be revealed in future.

 

And you can also check Riley's ET, where he killed Ryan even though he himself liked the character very much.

 

Sometimes it happens, that we have kill some important character for the story.

[Emi GS]

Maybe even do a group exercise...Someone starts a story, a few lines, and then others continue it...? I think that'd give this topic some recognition

Thats A Great Idea. But Not Here Though. Why Dont You Start A New Topic For This. And You Can Name It Like 'Build A Story' Or Something...

[William King]

Emi wrote:

- I appreciate whoever share their inspirations for particular story or chapter or a scene.

 

The background to a scene from Time May Change Me,

- Alex and Matty discover a secret about their friend Gareth.

 

"Found out what Aled, come on, we need to know what's going on. We're living with Gareth." Matty was right, but I don't think if it were me I'd have kept on at poor Aled.

 

He sighed and poured himself another mug of tea, more for support I thought, because it must be just luke warm by now. "Gareth meets up with... Mr D...Denis, usually on a Sunday. The guy lives the other side of town, he's easily 50 years old, I don't know why Gareth sees him, well I could guess." He sipped his mug of luke warm tea. "I'm no psychologist, everybody has their life, it ain't really my business."

 

Matty and I were looking at him as if to will the story from his lips, I think we both realised it must be important. "This guy, Mr D... well he likes to use discipline on young men." He looked embarrassed about what he was telling us. "You know... I guess that's his kink, how he gets off... whatever."

 

He put his mug down and scratched his head. "Shit this tea is cold," he said.

 

 

This scene from Time May Change Me focuses on the two protagonists, Alex and Matty who have runaway together and are staying at a farmhouse with Gareth, with whom they have become friends. Hearing about Gareth and Mr D, Denis, is an unexpected revelation.

 

These are just a dozen 'throw away' lines in the story that serve to add a dimension to the character who is Gareth, whilst also opening the eyes of the two teenagers, Alex and Matty. I have mentioned previously, elsewhere, that there are bits of myself in my stories. I make this point, because you may think Mr D came from the imagination of the author. He did not!

 

I knew a gay couple who had a farmhouse that I often visited when I was younger. One evening sitting around the fire with a group of friends, talking and joking, the liason of a young guy called 'Gareth' got mentioned in passing. I always remembered this particular moment for two main reasons: 'Gareth' was really cute and it was difficult to take my eyes off him, secondly, the story about him and 'Mr D' was - we'll, let's say it opened my young eyes.

 

There was nothing more to the reality than the few lines recounted in the story. I could not say if the real Mr D was 50, 40, or 30 something, but the liason was real enough. It got included in the story because it fitted the plot and because I like little paragraphs like this. The ones that are aside to the main story, but which slip in there and jolt the reader, the sort of few words that play a message in the back of your head - 'Did I really just read that?'

[Brayon]

I like Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Space Operas, but the serious lack of #GLBT story content in those genres, in the published world, is what made me start writing. I may not be the best, and use Friends/Family as Beta Readers, and Online Grammar checkers (like Grammarly) to make sure things are coherent. I try, though.

 

For my ongoing story, Aeris - Guardian Force, it draws heavily from my Tabletop Role-Playing days and playing in the RIFTS setting from Palladium Books. It's not a direct draw on the setting, but the Elements of Technology, Aliens, Magic, Space Travel are in the game's world scope. The character Aeris aka Joshua Rintel is a composite of a few Player Characters I had.

 

(As a side note, Grammarly is a browser extension as well as an MSWord plug-in. Works wherever you need to Post something.)

[Emi GS]

Despite my name got typed wrong in the news letter, I'd really really appreciate sharing your stories behind writing your stories.