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Merman Trident
02-27-2014, 07:33 PM
Im writing a mermaid novel and i need some plot/ character ideas if you have some i'd love to hear them!
deepblue
02-27-2014, 07:55 PM
How much have you written? If you're asking for plot and character ideas, I'm guessing not much yet? I don't personally have ideas to share, but there are some tropes that are done over and over.



Have you visited the Mer-Writer's thread? http://mernetwork.com/index/showthread.php?5504-The-Mer-Writers-Thread
sashiyoop
02-28-2014, 12:46 AM
Here's something that can help you with characters: http://selfpublishingteam.com/chargen/ya/

As far as writing mer novels go, it's more important to come up with a plot and then incorporate mers into it than center the plot around the ideas of mers. Whatever you do, you have to be original in order to avoid cringe-worthy clichés (for example, stay away from anything that even slightly resembles H2o). Work on developing your characters, and when that's happened, I've found that they come up with a plot for you. See if you can find any ideas in little, every day things, and remember that writing a novel is a hella lot of work. Good luck.
Merman Trident
02-28-2014, 05:28 PM
No i've never written a novel surly haha il take a look at merwriters thread, thank you for the advice sashiyoop i've actually never seen h2o so i think il watch it to get a sense of whats already been done, i will post my plot soon so you can get an idea of what im doing, the self publishing website you posted is really cool and will give me better character ideas! :)
sashiyoop
03-01-2014, 01:49 AM
Glad I could help~ Can't wait to see what you come up with
deepblue
03-01-2014, 03:05 AM
No i've never written a novel surly haha il take a look at merwriters thread, thank you for the advice sashiyoop i've actually never seen h2o so i think il watch it to get a sense of whats already been done, i will post my plot soon so you can get an idea of what im doing, the self publishing website you posted is really cool and will give me better character ideas! :)

Oh no, no- I meant how much of the novel have you written. :) Good luck with it.