Wow chapter 1 of my story is pretty good so far.
Thanks guys for helping me with advice. I took the time to think of a great story for chapter 1.
It take place before the outbreak spreads to other places. When I give my character dialogue, it helps me shape their personality. My main character's conversation with this character is pretty crazy lol. I think everyone can relate to the conflict I have them in XD.
I will continue working on chapter 1, and every month I make a new episode 
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If you can dream it, you can do it!
I have plenty of idea, it's just when I see others work, mine is no where as professional as their's. I get sad and feel like quitting.
Take your time you don't work on an schedule, just try to make you're characters unique and interesting, give them a backstory and reason to be there don't just throw in characters to have more of them. Imagine the whole scene on your mind and describe it as you imagine it. Also inspiration comes in unexpected moments sometimes you can get inspired even by a tree. And about people don't liking your work, just don't care, you aren't any proffesional writter (not yet atleast), you don't have to demostrate them anything and as long as you do it cause you like it i'm sure your work will be fine.
That's the issue though. I read an article saying don't write backstory in the story because it boring. my main character is an african american man who served in the united states army. He's married to his wife Michelle who is a fourth grade social studies teacher. They have to protect each other after the outbreak happens in my fictional city.
can you give me an example? That's the trouble I'm having, and the story in first person
Don't deliver the whole backstory at once,First just the basic and essential and then fit the rest in the dialogues.
For some reason your comment appears in my feed but not in the post so i'll answer here.
Like Nick at first we just know he lost his mother, then in the dinning room we know it was because they tried to cure someone bitten, and in the bridge we know he was the one who shot her.
SPOILERS FROM S2 EP 5 AHEAD
Or even a better example is Jane at first we don't know anything about her but then we learn she had a sister named Jaime and she bullied her , that Jaime died when she abandoned her, that Jane drank alcohol as a kid and once she ate glasses, that she had another group before.etc.
And all that is not given at once but in dialogue lines that then the reader puts togheter.
What about this guy from Macon who was convicted for killing a state senator sleeping with his wife and... no wait, how about he's the last dude left alive in New York because he's immune to a virus that rips though the city and.... actually, how about we start with a coproration called Umbrealla and... j/k.
There was actually a point to that, don't be afraid to re-use elements that have already been used before. I find sometimes that people can get too caught up trying to be too original just for the sake of being original.
If I recall there is this really clever South Park episode where Butters unintenionally keeps ripping of The Simpsons, pretty much because the Simpsons has already written everything.
So if you do find that your story is similar to something that already exists, I wouldn't worry about it, good luck.
Don't worry, I felt the same when I started my interactive fanfic. I always thought it was a piece of shit. But people love it! And now, when it's about to end, it feels kinda heartbreaking, because the story became a part of me.
Stop judge yourself. Every writer is self-destructive. Just accept it and try to not care.
Add a white guy that hides his racist notions but dont make it to obvious that he's racist. Then reveal it later on in the story when he's stuck in a survival scenario with another character blaming the situation on them when its partly his fault. Make it so that the only reason he travels with the African Americans is because he believes in safety in numbers and their the only people he has seen around that havent tried to kill him. Make the group consider kicking him out but don't kick him out. Later in the story he soon becomes accepting and more open and just when that happens he gets bit and as he dies have him apologize feeling sorry for being racist and explaining how wrong he was before they have to put him down.
Actually scratch that I think its been done already in TWD with Daryl's brother. lol
But a racist character is something to explore. You could make a black racist. Maybe instead of a racist make a black Jew (they do exist.)
Have yet to see a cult in a zombie storyline also.
I can bet even @LeetheProfessional felt neveous when he first created The Forum of the Dead
Haha, not at all. I was just really more surprised at how popular it got. It was just something I wanted to try for a while now, and it was something for me and the other users to have while we waited for the next episode of TWDG to come out. I don't think mines is that good, but people love it. I appreciate it all, and it wouldn't be the same without everyone and their characters. They give me their characters, and I just come up with the rest.
Space zombies...
No... Ninja zombies...
mine takes place before the outbreak though. like things that caused the virus. the african american couple were shopping in the super market in the downtown, when all over a sudden a man that looks sick coughs, an starts to turn. my main characters wife wants to help the sick man, but my main character stops her, and lets the store clark deal with it. The store clark asks the man if he's okay, but still eeiringly continues to turn. The sick man starts having seizers, and his eyes turn bloodshot red. My main character and everyone else in the store is frightened, and calls the ambulance. five minutes later the man turns and starts tearing the super marcet clark apart.
The horror beings like that, and events unfold.
A family with a ton of kids and a bun in the oven. Sadly its hard to keep them alive
Don't worry about what other people are writing or if you think it's better than yours, just write what you want to write. The main thing is that you enjoy it and have fun doing it. And the awesome thing about writing is that the more you do it, the better you get at it.
yes yours is awesome. my goal is to become a writer, but i feel i won't be as popular lol. i'm not good with those big fancy words even though i had an A in English 4
. i have so many ideas for scene 1, but it hard to do without doing backstory. i like the diologuge stuff
I'm Russian and I'm only 12 years old. English is not my native language. But I still somehow managed adding big fancy words in my story and expanding my English knowledge. Just use the help of a Google Translator.
wow thanks. I didn't know google translate had dictionary terms
. I'm using it now
Heh, thanks! Don't worry about it not being popular or not, you just have to give it a shot. It's not easy doing everything by yourself, though, trust me. It's a lot of work and it takes a lot of patience. I don't really use a lot of big words on my story, I don't think it's necessary to use them just to make a story seem better. Try to get some ideas from other things as well, but try to keep it original. You should try to make something that no one else has, I think this forum has too many zombie stories now, including mine haha. If you're going for a zombie story, just try to switch it up a bit.
how about a story about zombies who must team up and protect themselves from humans lol. zombies are the protagonist
You can also try to get someone to proofread it if you'd like. Back stories just have to be interesting, especially during a zombie apocalypse. Try to think of what the character was like before the ZA and how they got to where they are now. Maybe they watched their family die, maybe they had to betray someone in order to survive, maybe they lost someone and are looking for them, just some examples. Try to make the characters feel real, you have to get the reader to actually care about them or make a character hated by all.
Lol, seems more like a comedy story, hell, if you think you can pull it off, then go ahead. Just do what you want to do. B]
Think out of the box? When will your story start? Will it start before, during or after the apocalypse? Where will your story start? In a Community, in a city, in a town, in a village? How will your story start? With the dead, with the living, with both?
What kind of character will the main protagonist be? Positive, negative, humane, empathetic, sympathetic, one who focuses on survival, a leader, a liability?
Who will be in your group? An old person? A young person? An adult? All age types?
What will be your plan? Start a Community? Keep Travelling?
What hardships will your group face along the way? Treachery? Deceit? Death? Liabilities? Cannibals? Walkers? Living?
It's going to begin in the start of the outbreak. my main character and his wife are shopping at the grocery store, when all of a sudden a man that looks ghasly enters the store and falls to the floor. the store clark runs over to the man and asks if he's okay. The ghastly man coughs and starts having seizers. my main characters wife wants to help the man, but my main character doesn't think it's a good idea.
So scene 1 takes place in the grocery store lol.
Any other advice for me?
I just want to write chapter 1, but I keep procrastinating. It's a 5 part series like TellTales and in the narrator point of view.
Working on chapter 1
Hahaha, in Google Translate we trust
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English isn't my native language, too!