STEPS TO WRITE AN INTERESTING STORY

 

STEPS TO WRITE AN INTERESTING STORY

 

Writing a short story or novel is one of the best ways to let your creativity run wild! To make your own story, all you'll need is something to write with and a bit of inspiration. Here are special ways to create your own stories.

 

 

1.  Create the cast of characters you want for your story.

You'll want a main character or characters, people with whom they are friends and with whom they are enemies. If there is a main antagonist (often considered a bad guy) come with them too.

Authors find that actually planning the entire story, though it may take months, is beneficial to creating a smooth, connected story. Developing your characters is important, and conveying them correctly in your work is even more so.

 

2.  Use actions and plots in the progress of your story

When writing, don't tell your readers everything you planned abruptly (although the occasional telling is fine). Instead, show them. The readers can figure out your characters' personalities better when they observe the characters' to reactions to different situations.

 

3.  Choose a setting, or time and place, where your story will take place.

Try to come up with a setting that the reader can find believable, and one that makes sense, even if it's a fantastical setting, it should have elements that ground it in reality. Try to make it sound like a place that someone would want to read about. Make up your own town or state if you want.

 

 

4.  People watch

Spend time in public places, surreptitiously watching people and making up stories for them. Write down descriptions of their appearance, their mannerisms, their voices, what they were saying and what they were doing. Then take those stories and make them longer and more intricate.

Put people that you see into the same story, even if they aren't interacting in real life.

 

5.  Talk to strangers.

Obviously be safe while doing this, but talk to random people. Get insights into their lives and what they're doing. Even a simple discussion about the weather can give you insight into a person. Do they mumble? Do they meet your eye or do they look anywhere but you? How is their body language?

Using what you've observed, write a story about them, using the mannerisms and descriptions that you've noticed about them.

 

6.  Read nonfiction.

The best stories do seem to come from real life events and experiences (as they say "Truth is stranger than fiction") so read lots of nonfiction, especially if you're a fiction writer. Read histories of all different countries and time periods and build stories based on the things that happen. Read science books and medical books. Read about seafarers, and potential witches.

Pick out the facts and things that most interest you and build stories based on them. For instance, you could take something as simple as a decommissioned lighthouse in Maine and turn it into an epic tale of good and evil.