One of the most generic questions people asked authors is "how did you get your ideas?"
I want to try and answer those questions before anybody will have the chance to ask me that, because I want to be asked more interesting questions about my worlds.
So, how did I come up with Emerald of the Shattered Skies?
It's... hard to say all of it, but it started as a self insert story, believe it or not. This version of the story was about me working alongside my pet bird to try and save the main city from falling from the sky.
Somehow, that plot was never bad enough for me to completely scrap it. Anyway, I eventually removed me from the story, and only kept my pet birds.
Oh yeah, never mentioned that. I've had four pet birds. Sky, Snow, Porter, three parakeets, and Emerald, a green cheek Conure.
It was a while before I made them human characters, and until recently, all of them had the power to shift into their bird forms. (A power only kept by Sky, as of draft 2, and actually originating as my powers in the first version of the story.)
There's also a whole story behind Flix, who started out as a character for a completely different story, with the ability to turn into a phoenix.
IDK. I'm just infodumping some of the origins of my ideas. Hope somebody finds them interesting.
Feel free to ask questions!