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Hey guys, I'm a young guy that needs help on my ideas. I really like to write a story about cultivations and reincarnation but don't have the plot to continue it. I just have a little spark of an idea but can't actually make it a story. Please help.

SatanicSamael can i have more information about your idea. Even a general plot is fine. Like... Do your protagonist a male or female. What is her/his main mission to get the story going... Your Protagonist is hated or loved? Is he a cunning and manipulative or kind and humble person? Is he strong from the start or is he weak but, found something, someone or is he a genius reincarnated person that easily turn him from weak to strong?

SatanicSamael
The best way for you to have thousands of ideas with good plots is ...

Ask yourself:

What is the theme of your novel? What world is it in? How is the geography and politics of the place where the MC lives? What are the causes and consequences of these policies in the life of the MC or in the life of those around you? Is he satisfied? What can he do to change that? What obstacles will this have?

In short, all you need to do is follow a certain goal, in which, there will be obstacles to your MC's success. Consequently, conflicts will be inevitable.

The reader wants to know how the MC resolves these conflicts and their consequences. This is where the author answers all questions.

Carciphones_02
My mc is male. His main mission is to travel around the cultivation worlds, not like those anime worlds other people are doing. He is going to be adored by the people who know him well and be feared by the people due to his running and ruthless personality he shows to the public but is kind and humble to his friends and family. He is going to be weak from the start but gradually gains his overpoweredness throughout the story.

SatanicSamael
So a plot is, essentially, The Hero's Journey. You have a beginning (weak, the hero wants something), middle (becoming strong, the hero's want is driving him), and then the end (strong, the hero has or has not obtained what he wanted).
You can actually break a story down in multiple ways. One I like using for plotting is Freytag's Pyramid:

Exposition: The "backstory" needed to understand the story.
Intro of Conflict: The inciting incident. The event that gets the story started.
Rising Action: The small things that get put in the way of the character's goals.
Climax: The point in the story when tension and conflict is at it's highest.
Denouement: Or 'falling action,' the post-climax resolution of the story.

So if you'd want to plot this out (since this is a cultivation story), you would have to know you character's wants and needs. Understanding the difference between these two is what sells a story.
A want is something easily dismissed. A need is what drives behavior.

Lilliny
Wow, that helps a lot. Thanks for the info dump.

Lilliny
Can you read my prologue? The book title is "Roaming the Cultivation Realm" and I want your opinion of it and can you read my other forum? The suggestion one?

SatanicSamael What? Just keep everything in one thread man. I'll keep everything here. I'm not gonna type to you in three different threads...

Lilliny
Okay okay hahaha, I just want my book to be considered good for once.