What I'm asking is how do you go about plotting out what your story is about, where you want to go, how it should be done etc etc.
Do you have a general story outline?
Do you make it up as you go?
Is it continuously evolving into something else than what it originally was or has it kept the same?
Do you outline it chapter by chapter?
You can start in many different ways....my favorite is to start out by creating awsome characters in your mind and then form a story around them. Sometimes you can just start by deciding what "kind of" story it is in your own mind. You decide is it action? Comedy? Adventure? But then let's say you decide its action then the next step is to decide what kind of action? Gunslinging, swordfighting, supernatural abilities? And then once you decide this you add all the characters in and decide how they are connected and how they react to each other.
These two different options are like two different angles. So really good authors write a story with many different angles in mind to make it full of different connections, patterns of violence, comedy, sadness or suspense.
But the best way to do it for me is to start off by creating different characters in your head and then deciding their destiny, abilities, personality tendencies and then forming their story from there.....effectively making that the story.
