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Most authors plan - I am the more rare type I don’t plan at all - it stresses me and I immediately have felt like I have no idea how to get from point A to point B … so I am the one who just writes as it comes scene by scene - seems it works since I have good feedback on the story and the plot - even I myself don’t know why it is possible that at the end it all makes sense.
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Again it all comes from the inside intuitive source - If there was the inspiration it happened unconsciously - I simply kinda know how my characters look and what personality they have.
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I tend to develop much more characters than is usual in episode stories I make side stories for most of the important side characters I partly use it to make them more 3D and party to hand over to reader information and to develop the plot itself - but I know most authors do not do it so deeply as I do, usually, the side characters do not have much of a side story in the episode stories.
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in my first story there is MC an LI and MC.s best friend as the most important characters and then around 10 important side characters which some of them have even side story and flashbacks and all are developed to have a unique personality. In my second story, I have 7 main characters And I assume I will develop about the same amount of important side characters as they will appear in the story.
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I struggle a bit because of English - my descriptions are a bit simple I am not able to create beautifully structured sentences - therefore I avoid long descriptions I use narrations mostly for inner thoughts and feelings of the characters
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again this in my case is kinda intuitive -lol I as it seems I do not think much about how and why…I just kina let the intuitive part to do its job. :D. I usually see the scenes in my head - like I have idea for new story and I see big woods areac rather cold weather mountains big lake - all kinda screams CANADA - so I know this story will happen there. Sometimes I have big problem with this - in my story CAVEMAN I have underground world I have exact vision of how it should look like .- but I havet found background like this and also episoce clothes do not look like what I see in my head and I am forced therefore to adapt to what is acessible - and I hate to do it because my iner vision of the scenes is absolutly clear
On the other hands background I find sometimes inspire me …like I needed boy bedroom - the one I got had TV there so I got idea to make boy gaming scene there when I have implemented the background in my story… Or my MC bedroom was a lot pink and it ended up that I made lovink pink an important part of MC personality which then ocured in funny and also in some dramatic moment as a key point. -
I basically want my characters to be real so they have good and bad sides as real people. My MC is kind but too shy and it’s hard for her to stand for herself yet she is forced to save the world - so she has to overcome her shyness. Main LI is a bit arrogant and self-centered but in core good guy who just has to mature a bit… the main friend is good boy who was manipulated by his family and was used to live as it was told him and obey and he has to leave all behind and find what is good and what is bad for himself and stand to his decisions.
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Character should develop he or she should grow - so make him face situations that are out of his comfort zone and through dealing with them he can grow as a person - it doesn’t have to be drastic but at last some development of the character is really important.
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I hate if narration describes what is obvious. I mean you do not need to tell me he has blue eyes and black hair… but I like if not so clear features are described and also the feeling or impression MC has from his look … do his eyes look ice-cold? Does he make an impression he is a sweet person? But in general, I prefer to find out through dialogues and were sparingly used narrations.
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it depends on how much that he is forriner plays role in the story itself - if it play a big role and you will have some flashbacks and will show some traditions etc then you need to know deeply what you are talking about. But not always being from a different country necessarily makes it an important part in the story - if it is culturally similar to the one you know then you do not need much research if it is, however, the county with a lot of different cultures - then be sure you do not display it incorrectly.
My MC best female friend is Hispanic but this fact doesn’t play role in the plot and it’s not even said she is Hispanic in the story … you just can guess because of her name and because her mom always offers MC some Mexican food.
LOL I just realized all my characters are foreingners - since I am Czech and my story happens in USA. But in core it is similar “western” culture so I know (from films - never really bin there) that I have similar mindest and life style so I just made some research about the L.A. when I moved my MC there.