I'm still trying to figure out how to think of plots for stories. At the moment what I seem to do is:

- Think of characters. This isn't too hard, at least because they are very often fursuiters so as well as a name I can give them a suit species and imagine what the suit might be like, and so on

- Write about them. Nothing too strenuous, I just do little snippets of their day or them meeting another character, little things like that. I try to get a feel for the character.

- Hope that a plot involving the characters comes to me. This is where it all falls down, of course. In one case I've had a settings emerge which *might* be a good place for a plot to happen in, but so far the plot hasn't made itself known.

I wonder whether I'm going about this all backwards. Should I instead be deciding what the main theme(s) is/are, i.e. what I want to say, then finding a plot that serves the theme(s), then coming up with characters and settings that that plot could take place in? Maybe my big difficulty with writing is more than I don't know what I really want to say in the first place.

If you write stories, how do you come up with plots?