I need help coming up with an idea...

[Sanctum Angel]

I need help coming up with a manga idea with christian themes can anyone help me?

[Sohma]

Do you have any small ideas to get started with? Or character ideas? What time setting would you like? Would it be a Christian theme as in, moral or like people with relationships with God? Realistic or fantasy?

Here's some questions to get started with, I can try to help with ideas, but I need to know what your thinking of. xD

[Sanctum Angel]

Yes a moral or a relationship with God would be nice ^^. I'm better at fantasy then realistic things, so i'd prefer it to be fantasy. The future would be a nice time setting, but other then that...I have nothing...<_<

[LadyRushia]

Playing the interview game works pretty well when trying to come up with ideas.

So you have your futuristic fantasy setting and God. Now you need some characters. Is your main character a male or female? How old is he/she? What kind of past does he/she have? What does he/she do in the world? What kind of world does he/she live in? How are things run in the world? Does he/she have any enemies?

Then you can ask questions about the plot. What happens that forces the main character into action? How does he/she react to it? How does this event change the world around him/her? What kinds of people help or hurt the main character as he/she tries to solve the problem?

You also want to ask how God comes into your world. How much are you going to allegorize Him? Are you going to have a character who represents Him, or are you only going to give Him a different name? The best person to ask about this is God Himself. Ask Him to be a part of your writing and He'll show up. The best part is that it'll feel very natural.

Keep asking questions about your characters and your world. Whenever I think about my stories, it's like I'm just watching them in an anime. I kind of just let them go and see how they react to each other and to different events. Then again, I've been writing stories ever since I learned how to write. I suggest watching things, but you might want to set some qualities of your main character to give you something to start with, which leads me to another question: How does your main character see God/whoever represents God? Does this view change as the story goes on? Is it challenged?

So yeah, hammer out the basic gist of your world and your main character. That should give you a good lead into everything else.

Oh! You'll need names for everything! Try http://www.babynames.com and looking up fantasy name generators if you have trouble coming up with names on your own.

[Sanctum Angel]

Thanks for that information. That'll help me a lot!! ^^

[Desert Rose]

A good villain is they key to any good story. Not a villain who is evil, but maybe a villian who was changed from good to bad because he or she has a tragic past.

[Sanctum Angel]

Yea, I see what you mean. Thanks for the informacion ^_^