- Think about whose viewpoint you're using to tell your story. What is their background? Their tribe/species? Think about the history of interaction with other tribes/species for good or ill. While not all of this will necessarily go into your story, if you know the answer to these questions, you will write about/for your characters with more conviction and that will show in your writing.
- Think about where your character lives in your fictional world. Are they in the elite areas or in holes in the ground? Do they like being where they are? Has their land been hit by having too much magic go through it and, as a result, do they struggle to grow food? What is their attitude to those living in better areas or, if they are okay in this department, how do they treat those lower down than them? You get the beginnings of politics here and I think you can't have a successful fictional world without that coming into the equation somewhere. Nobody lives in a vaccum (or if they do I can't think of a successful story set in that vaccum. A story needs conflict. Politics, religion (or lack of), food availability etc are all good triggers for that conflict.
- What is your character going to achieve? Are they equipped to do so or do they need to develop further magical skills, collect magical equipment to improve their chances and so on? How will they meet their objective or will they fail heroically? Who or what is in their way? Answer questions like this and you've got your outline sorted out.
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