mardi 3 juin 2014

Short Story Ideas That Would Be Useful

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 for one to be able to come up with a good storyline, one technique that he can use in order to come up with a good story is conceptualizing. Conceptualizing is where would one would write any random thing in a small notebook that would probably be useful for the story. Just try to write anything that would come in handy.

Now he just has to keep on writing his random thoughts during his free time for a time period probably about few days. After doing this, then he can start filtering out his thoughts and combining them. Now these thoughts may be about anything maybe an event that happened, an existing story, or probably the experience of another person.

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 just like other stories, it would be composed of an introduction, a body, a climax or twist, and the conclusion. Of course the climax would be the main twist in the story but there may be other twists as well. Once all of those parts have been identified, then one may complete the tale.

The next thing to do would be to then complete the tale by filling up the entire outline. Once one has already done this, he has already created his first draft and is ready for editing. Now after he has edited his first draft, he can then add a little bit more style to the writing to make it more beautiful.

One word of advice to would be writers would be to never stop editing until it is perfect. One technique for this is to make the first edit then make the second edit after a day or half a day. When the personal editing is done, then one should get a third party person to make a final edit on the draft.




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