How to start a writing a story,novel or a poem?

First book I wrote I started with three names. Half a million words later, I think we can say there was a bit of flow involved. "Planning" a story can close off some avenues. There are always alternative storylines, and the flow can be a bit like whitewater rafting, you do need to watch how it's behaving. What I like about it is that I can let a story flow, and be as unprepared as the reader for what follows. Good characters help, because you can see them in their situations. I must add in fairness that after all that self indulgence these things do have to be made into a book. That, you can plan, and work systematically to achieve.

Depends on what I get first. If I have a character idea first, then I sketch out how I see that character, then think of things that could happen to fit that character. The plot sort of evolves. Sometimes I get the plot first, then I do the opposite. I outline the plot to the best of my ability, then start adding characters that can make it happen. As the character develop, I can find new ways to add to the plot.

One thing that you could try and worked for me is to find a email pen-pal who is interested in writing you write a page and send it to them, then they write a page and send it back. This helps to keep the momentum going. I cannot decide to write a poem it just comes to me and then I have to write it down but I know others who can sit down and decide to write on. All the best urban

Typically, they plan everything out. Once they have the plan organized then they start developing the plot, story line, and then the characters.

For me, the plotting and planning and summary stage happens after I have begun writing. I feel like my ideas come across better in the earliest chapter if I just write it. If my first chapter doesn't start off well, then I start over. Once I have a few chapters with a brief bare bones plot in mind, then I break down the plot in a summary and keep writing. Then I try to write out chapter names with a brief abstract of the goings-on of the chapter. Then I write some more.;) Character Sheets help, writing a sort of chart that tells you more about the character that you may or may not use in the book. This helps you to develop characters and to link characters in ways you might not have thought of if you were just writing and writing away. So, while I'm a fan of just writing, there's a point where you need to examine and analyze what you have written so far and how it ties in with what you haven't yet written.

My memoir I'm working on came the idea did from my love of the bookstore I worked at and then helped take apart when they closed July 3rd 2004. My poetry I usually dont write unless I'm inspired to do so. Then you gotta write it then and RIGHT THEN or its gone. I find I've lost a few good ideas by not writing them down when they were coming! *sigh* Oh well its all good :))

i dont know what they do in order to write something but in my part, yes i write too, i need to be inspired for me to write something coming within me. at times of sadness, thats when i can write a lot. actually everyday i do but most of the time, informal writing. like blogging, just an update of my daily life you know.

Well I m not a writer just giving u the Idea. Well first Make in the mind that what are u going to write? what will be about? Then make sketch. collect the popints and make the basic idea. Then combine all of them look what picture it gets then start expending it and in the end choose the title

I let my ideas flow. I always keep a notebook handy when insperation hits. It's intersting in what I can come up with. By the time I have a page or two down I have almost a whole plot down. I may be missing a few details but I sooner or later get more of it down.

For me, inspiration comes from many places. A lot of the time I'll come up with good ideas while falling asleep, so I try to have a pen and paper beside my bed. Other times it comes to me in the shower.