mercredi 11 juin 2014

Short Story Ideas For Beginners

By Kathleen Stine


Writing short stories is definitely no cakewalk as there is a long process that one would have to follow before even coming up with the plot. These tips on how to be a writer for short stories will be able to help beginners follow a certain process that will help them be able to properly come up with a plot and then keep on going from there. Now before creating stories, do take note of these short story ideas or tips.

Now what most do not know is that coming up with the plot is actually the hardest thing for a writer to do. Now the plot is not just something that will appear in the mind of a writer in just a few seconds. A writer has to look for the plot and try to formulate the synopsis in his head which will actually take a long process to do.

Now in order to come up with a very good plot, one has to first go through a conceptualization process wherein he will be collecting ideas. To do this, he has to whip out a small notebook and start writing just about everything that he can think of that would help. This is called free writing as it will allow the writer to write down anything he feels.

After collecting ideas, one should then look into his notebook and start connecting his thoughts. Now his thoughts can actually come from anywhere whether it would actually be an actual event that happened, a story he already read before, or probably even an event that happened to someone else. So all the thoughts that are in the notebook should now be filtered and combined.

Once that is done, one should already have some kind of idea of how the story would be going about. Now the next thing that he has to do would be to create an outline on the sequence of events. One can use any format that he would want for the outline that he will be using later on.

Now the basic story line would usually have the introduction, the body, the climax, and of course the ending. Now the outline will be composed of these four parts and would sometimes even include twists. Now the subheadings would be under these four parts and the subheadings would then be composed of the events that would be happening.

Now from there, one has already created his very first draft. Now with the first draft, one may start editing and adding a little bit of style to the writing to make it a nicer read. Now it will take a bit of writing skills and editing skills so that one will be able to add a little bit of spice to the piece.

Now most writers do not like to edit because they think it is one big hassle. However, one should keep on editing until he feels like there is nothing wrong. Also, get a third party writer to take a look at it and give some feedback as well.




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