If You Guys Have Characters But No Plot Just Put Them In A Scenario Where They Suffer The Absolute Most

"What, you still don't know?

That boy has rank and power second only to the queen"

I love characters that are completely harmless until they finally unleash their power and then they’re TERRIFYING

"To think I'd have trouble with a couple of intruders. Oliver is going to be mad at me later"

i talk a big game about enemies-to-lovers but i’ve only just now begun considering the possibilities of friends-to-enemies-to-lovers. they were friends. there was a BETRAYAL. now they’re enemies. but then… they fall in love… maximum potential for pining… achieved

I’ve said it a bajillion times and I’ll say it a bajillion more: motive. 

It fixes 99% of writing problems. 

Scene is boring? Give the characters a motive. Character doesn’t feel real? Find their driving motives behind their worldview and actions. Tension missing? Find a motive and prevent the anyone from getting what they want. 

Dig into those passions, however big or small. Prevent characters from reaching it, make it glaringly, blindingly obvious what they, in their deepest parts of their soul, crave. 

Motive motive motive. 

— robert frost

to whom it may concern: live on.

“ he said you were so beautiful it made him shudder “