To create a story, the ingredients that a writer must use and combine are plot, setting, characters, plot, narration, scenes, story type, form and structure.
In order to write successful, short and marketable stories, writers must know and understand each of these vital parts of a story.
To plot:
Intrigue is the first essence of the story. The plot is not the story itself. A plot is the framework upon which a story is built… Have you seen a house built? It starts with the framework. Another thing: imagine a skeleton. Does the voice consist of bones? The writer puts meat on the bones or builds the story.
Examples of plotting: Harry Potter: A young wizard learns; Little House on the Prairie: Frontier Life Through the Eyes of a Girl;
Place: where the story; not where, but exactly where; For example: the classroom. At Benton? In Neosho? In Kansas City? New York? Everything would be different. When? Now? In the year of the Lord 1750? 1910? 1880? (Original Central as a Neosho school model) Time is important; they are seen; sounds
Character: Characters are important. If the story was a car, what kind of driver would it be? Sometimes characters are created to fit a situation that the writer has devised. Sometimes behavior is self-inflicted. From the imagination proceed the marks, from many into one, according to the true man; (choose the boy). There are ten main things a writer should look for in a character so that the writer can tell about them. These are:
Who is the genius? Name, type, type
What are they? A student? A son? Daughter? Brother? Sister?
Football fans? Reader? Baptist? of the players?
Where are they? In school? Home? In the woods? On vacation?
In the city or in the farm? Neosho or New Orleans? Is this now or a century ago? Today or a year or twenty years ago? or in the future? 2110?
What are they like: the old man or the young man? Rich or poor? Intelligent? Happy? Angrier? Nice? A beautiful dress with bad behavior? A shy girlfriend?
How others see the character: Physical Description – crisp, black hair, brown eyes, short, tall, what? Apart from physics, what kind of good neighbor does he seem to be, a team player is an excellent student, what?
Who are their friends/peers? Does the behavior depend on the group of friends? Do you prefer to spend quiet time with birds? Play with your brother? If an adult character, in social circles movie-stars”>movie stars move or hang out in the stadium?
Who are the enemies? Is the cranky old man on the road? a stranger? Cooperator? a witch?
Why do you behave in this place or situation?
To solve a problem, help someone, gain something?
How did the character find himself in this situation?
Or perhaps? Did he go to this place for a reason? What is the reason?
What do you want to do or do or experience behavior? Fly to the moon? Stand up to the corruptor, the tyrant? Help the elderly neighbor? Money to buy something special?
Part View / Story:
A perspective is a set of eyes, which is told… A narrative is the development of a story, as the story moves. There are three basic types of features:
First person: “I”, the person tells a story or writing about the events.
Second person: someone is talking about another person
Third person: the story is told by someone outside; the narrator … is often extremely flexible.
Scene: Consider your favorite story. The story begins in the classroom. There is a scene. When the action moves into the theater, that is the stage. If the character enters the house, that is another scene. Tables of action.
Genres of story: Prose, telling a story (I don’t tell), narration (explanation, defining, describing), Narrative, telling what happened, dialogue, speech, speech;
Form and structure:
What is writing? A story? A poem? To play? Is this a true story? Fake?
Structure: the narrative is proposed, the form then presented. Stories need a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is a simple version. Writers think of the basic elements of a story as an introduction (character, death, plot), conflict (what a character should do, do, must, face), rising action (how a character does what is in question), climax or anti-climax – the end the result of what happened.
Other points to make;
Fiction makes a story with words, telling a story that you made.
Writing has two parts: genius and art. Although talent cannot always be taught, trickery can. It is the art of learning spelling, grammar, punctuation, form, what makes a story and more.
Reading is important. Writers read and many readers write. Read other people’s stories to get ideas for your own.
Use these elements to construct a story in a bare framework and almost any writer, novice or aspiring, can create a marketable, readable !
