Imagine a story that has one of the coolest hooks you’ve ever heard of: the devil brings someone back to life, but they’re haunted by the vengeful spirit of someone they accidentally killed in a car accident. If they can survive the spirit’s attacks for seven nights, then they get to return to their body.
Sounds pretty interesting, huh? Well, that’s the premise of one viewer’s story… except they started writing it and ran out of steam. Now their story is on life support!
Thankfully that’s where the Story Surgeon comes in, ready to operate!
The story for this Story Surgeon was submitted by RealSayakaMaizono, who had a cool idea for a story and had written the beginning of it, but then didn’t know where to take it after that.
After going over RealSayakaMaizono’s ideas, we created a chapter-by-chapter outline from start to finish of the book.
This type of outline was requested by RealSayakaMaizono, and it’s a bit more detailed than what we usually get into, but I think it was very helpful. Not only does this give them one way to potentially take the story that has an engaging beginning, middle, and end, but it also shows off a good method that you can use for outlining yourself.
You can see the process we went through here,
as well as get a glimpse of the story from start to finish!
After that, chat voted that we write this prompt created by videoguylol: “You attend a local Comic Con cosplaying as Sherlock Holmes. Someone is murdered and the convention is locked down. You decide to investigate.”
If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you. We stream on Twitch every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 7:30pm-11:30pm (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
And you missed the stream, you can still watch Rubbish to Published, the writing exercises, or the writing prompts on YouTube, or watch the full stream reruns.
Hope to see you next time, friend!