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  • Yeah, you wanna have the plot planned out in advance, I just don't always split the plot into chapters in advance!
    Do you need to plan in advance how many chapters it's going to have?

    I only plan numbers of chapters when I get near to the end of a story. Rival's Story I ended on 100 because I realised it was going to end somewhere around the late 90s or early 100s anyway and I thought it'd be cool. Dragon Days I have no idea.
    Ah, okay, in that case you might want to have him kill Ariana later on.

    Or you could have him do it early on but manage to cover it up and the only person who knows he did it was Silver. That way Silver has a reason for wanting to stop him against the odds, even though he looks like a good guy to most people.

    Alternatively, he could kill Ariana and no one, including Silver, finds out that he did it. Then Silver begins investigating the death of his mother, eventually tracing it back to his brother, Terry.
    That could work, but you'd have to make it either immediate or much, much later.

    If you have it within the first two chapters, then it can immediately show that Terry is a bad guy. Alternatively, you could have it happen much, much later, which demonstrates how powerful and deluded Terry becomes later in the story.
    Yeah, I like to use Ariana - it's kind of the easy way out. If you go with someone else you have to do too much on their character when you just can't be assed.
    I doubt he'd be forced to do a speech before the burial according to the will, but he could have been pressured into it by his mother, whoever that may be.
    Oh, that's simple.

    Two main ways jump out at me.

    Number one, just reveal it through the narration as things go on:

    "This was the last thing Silver wanted to be dealing with at his father's funeral."

    Number two, do it through their conversation:

    "'So, Dad managed to keep us apart for a long time. Kind of ironic that his funeral was what brought us together.'
    'That's not ironic, you dick.'"
    Just jump straight into the action.

    Go straight to the funeral, with no background information and describe Silver meeting his brother without even mentioning they're at the funeral. Filter in bits of description as to where they are and that sort thing once they're already talking.
    Just don't get too carried away.

    For example, Ash's first Gym battle - against Brock. That sucked.

    Similarly, in Rival's Story, Blue's second battle against the Scientist, which involved heavy use of the Reliever wasn't too popular.
    Oh, I hit sent before I meant to. I meant I find them tiring to write.

    Yeah, they can be entertaining to read as long as the strategies are really outside the box... but not too far outside the box.
    James was slightly more mature... until Ty started being a bad influence on him. As per the usual.

    And the whole Mitch thing was kind of a failure... it didn't really go how I planned. I made the reveal WAY too early... and it was too obvious who he really was.
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