Story ideas

I had a story idea for my novel, it was sci-fi and it was simple, but I didn’t know how to pull off the events to make it happen and provide any good interesting reasons to make it happen. But I started writing anyway.

I love horror, so no matter what I do, my short stories always end up going that way. So as I was writing, I started playing with the story in my head to add suspense, life, emotions and horror to the story line. Now I think I finally have something.

I try not to nail down my characters or story lines at the very beginning. I think that each needs room to breathe so that I can adjust them according to my life experiences.

The way I think about this is, how do I get a family practitioner flying home to defeat a terrorist and then sit at the pilot’s chair to fly the plane. There’s way too much I don’t know. I would probably just decide the crash the plane instead. But realistically I would probably try to find someone on the plane who can fly a 747 so I wouldn’t have to explain to the reader how a doctor managed to land the plane.