Inspiration images

The most important part of this snippet is the environment, so here are a couple of pictures to inspire you. (Right-click and open in a new tab to see bigger versions.)

You can use one of these, find your own, or draw from your experience or imagination.

You're looking for an environment in which you can stage a helter-skelter chase scene.

This image is from Hue Teo, a fantastic Romanian concept artist who does a lot of illustrations of mechs.

Picture of a floating sky city with hot air balloons

This painting is from Sylvain Sarrailh, a game artist who does beautiful, chewy, colourful environments. (It’s the cover art for a boardgame called Welkin.)

If you use either of these images, you need to fill in lots of details! They are empty environments, so you need to add people, animals, robots, aliens, whatever you want.

Before you start writing, think: what’s going on? 

  • What environment would I like my characters to run through? 
  • Who are these characters, roughly? 
  • What threat should they run from? 
  • What were they doing before the threat appeared? 

Let’s get writing!