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How To Write and Create "Good" Stories
Topic Started: Dec 2 2010, 08:08 PM (260 Views)
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Due to a question of a TREZ member, it has been brought to my attention that some people are interested in writing.

So let's begin with writing stories!

  • Stories tend to be written when you feel some sort of inspiration, whether it is happy, dramatic, sad, depressing, challenging, exciting, or any emotion or feeling. This helps a lot when trying to write, due to the fact no one likes aimless works that seem so boring with no "feel" to it.


    • To understand what inspiration is, let's explore the different types of stories that can be written.

    • Some stories can be funny, event filled instances. They can be humorous, filled with many scenes of action, laughter, and jokes. These are sometimes usually wrote when you ecstatic about something. In other words, you are in a good mood.

    • Others maybe serious, more event filled epics. Epics generally have the feeling of intense emotion and drama where as the actions that are taking place tend to be more event driven. You usually get this from being inspired by action, emotion. There is no real feeling like sadness or happiness. It's all in the heart, where you feel inspired.

    • Sad dramas seem to depict strong emotion with the author. These may be harder to write if you don't have that feeling of compassion or emotion towards something. Whether it is the loss of a loved one, or the departure of a good friend. It doesn't have to be that, it can be love stories of tales of high school love! What ever you chose or desire can be a drama.


  • When you find yourself with a good thought for a good story, you will need to know what write! This usually depends on the mood of the author. If you are not really interested in the subject you are writing, there really is no emotion flowing into the text. Be aware that in order to write something, you need to know what you are writing, and like it.


    • When exploring the different types of stories, one must understand what kind of mood you want to use. There are several types of moods, so I will explain them!

    • Happy, more funny than serious. This kind of mood gives the reader a happy feeling when writing. This tends to be done very easily.

    • Happy, more serious than funny. This kind of mood is not particularly aimed to make the reader laugh at your writing, but aimed to give an upbeat feel to the text.

    • Serious. This is more of a dramatic, epic tone to the reading. When tending to do this, you need to make sure to be focused, idea driven, and possibly emotionalized.

    • Depressing. This is not particularly sad in a sense, but more of a downbeat tone. This is for scenes that depict sadness and loneliness.

    • Sad. This is the hardest, if not the most uncommon kind of writing style. Although the best kind, it is still the hardest to write. These kind of moods set a tear jerking kind emotion to the reader. The idea is to convey everything to the story and relay it back to the reader.

    • Mixed, epic, et cetera. For anything not mentioned above goes here. Epics tend to be more like something you'd find in action books with wars, etc. Mixed is the most common kind of book, where they throw everything in there for a fruit basket of emotions.


  • After understanding what to write, you'll need a subject. Depending on what you want to write, there's an entire apple tree of choices. Depending on what you are interested in, you could always write about your own life. Although simple when comes to mind, you want to make sure that you are writing a fictional story. (Assuming that's what you are reading this for.)

  • During the writing process, you need to make sure to keep your emotions in, don't release it in the text. When you do, you are killing the mood! If you write about a scene of anger, and let it out, you can't convey those emotions again. You need to make sure that you/reader are in tune with the text. As your mood changes, so does your text. If you let it out, you are changing emotions too fast, giving the reader bland text!

    Another thing to note while writing, is that people want to here the story, not some back ground information about a character's person life as soon as they are introduced. Focus on the main story, rather than character's life! To put it simple, it is easier to unfold what kind of character in the story is while the story caries on. I am not saying that you make them seem like strangers, flashbacks are key to a story. In order to explain some questions that a reader might have, you need to sometimes tell a story about a character's life.

  • After beginning to write a story, you'll sometimes hit a rock in the road. Some people know this as writer's block. Basically meaning you can't think of anything to increase the plot. Do not worry, as long as you continue what you are doing, when you create that fluidity again, you'll find yourself writing away.

  • Upon completion of a story, you'll need to make sure you are going over it. Read over the entire story, fixing any broken holes in the story, patching them up with fixed thoughts. As long as the reader can keep a soft, narrow passage down the road that is your book, you will always have readers coming back for the next chapter.


This is how you write a story. ._. Or at least, the best way I can put it.
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Naegi Makoto
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Now I think I can write my own imagination based story.
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I thank you as well, but not because I don't know how to write one; Like you, I've pretty much mastered it already (obviously). I thank you because writing is one of the most beautiful forms of creativity out there in human civilization and it's always good to help other people learn how to write well. Of course, everyone has their own style, but it's always good to provide basic guidelines. This tutorial actually makes good points and highlights a few problems and questions a budding writer might have. Good work.
Edited by Saberman, Dec 4 2010, 09:47 AM.
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I expected to see a compilation of things you're not supposed to do. These tips are useful though.
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One thing to keep in mind, Megarock, that there is no wrong way to write a story. The only wrong way is not knowing how to write one.

The only other exception is poor grammar and spelling, but that's a given.
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Don't forget what you learned in English/Literature class!

Characterization.
Theme.
Foreshadowing.
Allegories.
Conflict.
Dramatic Irony.
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Those English crap they teach you in class is a bunch of crap. Although it's useful, nothing like that comes to mind when I write. When I write, it's from my head, and then when it comes, I use my brain to make sure it doesn't sound bad.

The best way to make sure that you are using good writing styles is to look over your writing. If it's choppy, sad, or terrible, just fix it have a flow.

Those terms are just a sad excuse for homework.
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Foreshadowing is NOT crap. Hinting at the eventual end with an ironic incident is extremely effective in getting the reader to keep reading.
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Gonna take on saber. I always foreshadow my current sci-fi mecha story. Doing so makes me want to focus on the story even more to make it the best it can be to reach that certain point.
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I foreshadow when I don't realize it. You don't need to learn these things when you do it already. >_>
Tell me, when you write, do you honestly think about all that writing stuff?
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