Let's Brainstorm My New Story Together || Mind Mapping Character Plot Tropes and Worldbuilding

[@shebreathesingold8043]

I love brainstorming and mindmapping. This isn't my genre so it was so fun to listen to all the things you take into consideration.

[@madelinejameswrites]

I'm glad you enjoyed!! 😄

[@thecat_iswatching]

I did this along with you, and it was so helpful! Thank you

[@narrativedude]

There are so many ways to brainstorm and your process inspires me to follow through. The old-school tech approach is brilliant.

[@madelinejameswrites]

Thank you! I think best on paper

[@76kilosofshade81]

I liked the stream-of-consciousness nature of your mapping/video. Also, I'm a fan of good old fashioned paper and pen sometimes, despite downloading/trying several of the programmes designed to help. I'm also not writing in this genre but lots of useful thoughts to take to other genres.

[@madelinejameswrites]

I struggle with using programs sometimes, I really fall victim to the out of sight out of mind problem!

[@EmmaBennetAuthor]

This was brilliant! I love seeing how other writers work!

[@madelinejameswrites]

Me too!

[@tampagirl7533]

This was so great!!! I needed this! I found this sooooooo helpful in mind mapping my story, and how you did it was fabulous!!!! can you show this for character arcs and character building, this is where I need it the most.

[@madelinejameswrites]

So I have a retreat vlog where I came up with how I would do character arcs and all that for my characters, let me see which part it's in

[@madelinejameswrites]

Okay so I went over all the character stuff afterwards to sum up the cheat sheets I did, but it's definitely at a much deeper level than this mind mapping process, so I'm not sure if you'll like it as much. Let me know if this still leaves something to be desired for a shorter mind mapping approach... kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV6ZZJeOYs2Vr5osi=h5esOy1f-Dvug7t5

[@barn_ninny]

Really fascinating to watch this develop. It seems like quite a daunting project! The linguistics, in particular, I would find an imposing prospect. I think I would be looking for ways to avoid having to invent all that and keep it to world-character-plot. (As an aside, you have a real Kat Denning thing going on, which is irrelevant, I know, but it's a good thing in my thoroughly-unimportant-to-you sense of the video. It was just too prominent to go unobserved. Apologies.) Write!

[@madelinejameswrites]

The linguistics is definitely the most daunting part, but I'm lucky enough to have a community with a lot of conlangers that have been helping me out! And thank you haha 😊

[@ShyRobot_]

I might be repeating something you have considered, so I'm sorry if i am. When a invading society supplants the old aristocracy, their foreign language becomes the status language of that society. Maybe the status language could be the spell language. This makes magic inaccessible to people that don't know or cant afford to learn this language. Druids nature magic could be a threat to this social order and could could be treated as pseudo science and taboo.

[@madelinejameswrites]

Ooooh that would be really good! The invading society is anti-magic, so it wouldn't make sense in this case BUT that gave me a really good idea about how to use that language barrier as they take over... Awesome idea, thank you!

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

Then, perhaps the peasantry will retain some of their magic heritage. This could be very different from the type of magic that the former nobles would use. /shrug

[@alistercheng]

Where did you learn this from?

[@madelinejameswrites]

@@alistercheng it's my own process, but it's been inspired here and there by little things I've seen elsewhere. For example, Brandon Sanderson has part of his course where he talks about using plot archetypes (I actually use a similar one here) and I've sort of taken that idea of mapping it like that and expanded it to everything I start with