It's a question that's always on the tip of every new writer's tongue, or brain. Do I start with character or an idea? A real chicken or egg situation.
I personally believe that it really does depend on whatever hits you first. Is there a person that you have in mind, a description, and if you do, what's their story?
Do you have an idea, a story, something that you've come up with that you could run with? Who populates that story?
Or throwing that whole thing out of the window, did you have an idea along with a person to fit the role of protagonist and/or villain?
Basically, to me it doesn't really matter; I have come up with both, ideas and people. Usually for me, if the idea strikes first, there's usually a person, involved already; they come to me as the story line is jotted down. In my first novel, I had the idea of a sorceress who is rescued by a mage when she feels she's nothing left to live for. That idea grew, and both sorceress and mage remained, but the story around them changed; it morphed into a story about a Cross Dimensional Gaurdians Organisation who reside at the nexus of the universes. The sorceress became a top-class agent; the mage is the person she's sent to ascertain whether he is let live or die, as he is the decendent of her evil step sister.
The image I first had all those years ago was of the sorceress standing on a cliff edge, and being saved by the mage. In the story, as it progressed, all changed, and you'll have to read it to find out how, why, and what the actual outcome was.
So, Chicken or Egg, Story or Character, both have simular if's what do you start with?
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