How to: make an interesting story
Ooook! First off, this is my first 'how to' blog...so be nice!
Now, if you're going to be making a story, you have to think of an original storyline. Not the usual girl falls in love with boy or depressed girl who wears nothing but skinny leg jeans meets her favourite band and marries them. We've had enough of them!
Imagination: 1. the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. 2. the action or process of forming such images or concepts.
Ok! See that? Use your imagination! A story is your ideas, not somebody elses ideas put down in your own words! It could be about being dragged into space by a flower-eating cowboy or even being stuck in a box for twelve years! Who knows? It's your imagination! Use it!
Now, this what I usually do for the beginning of a story. If you want a good beginning, imagine your story up on a big movie screen. How do you want the movie to begin? Should it begin on a beach? A cafe? Should your main character be a girl or a boy? Happy? Sad? Fat? Skinny? Ugly? Pretty? You have to ask yourself questions before beginning! And if planning is what you do, plan, plan, plan!
Oh and when writing your story, please, please, please use correct grammar and spelling! I hate reading stories that are like this:
"OMG! Is that SERIOUSLY billie joe!!!!!!!!!!?"
Ok so I'm not here to tell you how to write your story or what to write about, but those are just a few tips on using your imagination and trying to get a clearer picture of what you're writing. Plan, ask yourself questions and imagine!
The story is all yours, it can be about anything that you want it to be about! Hell, it can even be about how bored you are! Just go for it! Let your imagination free!
I'm sorry if this is terrible x]
Now, if you're going to be making a story, you have to think of an original storyline. Not the usual girl falls in love with boy or depressed girl who wears nothing but skinny leg jeans meets her favourite band and marries them. We've had enough of them!
waiting_a_long_time, May 14th, 2008 at 08:22:45am
I agree on some levels. As long as you don't take someone's idea completely. Say, like some boy who has lost his parents and finds out he's a wizard? That's going a little bit far XD
But if you see a story and you like it so much it inspires you to write one like it...completely different but along the same lines..then I suppose that's ok.
:/
dramamine;, May 14th, 2008 at 02:45:45am
I went to a book signing last Tuesday. An author, Neil Gaiman, was doing a reading, answering questions and then he signed books.
Anyhoo, somebody asked him the question "What do you do if you have a great idea for a story but then you find out it's already been done?".
He said that it happened to him with one of his comic book story lines. He said he ended up writing to the author who he had the same idea as saying "I just lost a whole story line for my comic Sandman because of you".
The dude sent him back a postcard which said on it "Write it new." ..Basically, what Neil said was that, sure, somebody may have the same idea as you. But if you write it then it's not going to be the same, is it? No. It's going to be your story, told your way.
So, just another little insight there. You don't have to have a totally original idea. Just as long as you write it in your own way then it'll be different.
vonny, May 14th, 2008 at 02:27:36am
Good blog! I sometimes get writers block.
Let's Live A Dream, May 13th, 2008 at 07:06:21pm
ahah really good blog; and i agree with you :]
Bubble Wrap., May 13th, 2008 at 01:10:11pm
I've had a writer's block since forever.
brompton cocktail., May 13th, 2008 at 09:54:03am
I feel as though I permanently have writer's block. But ever since I had that dream about Julian, I've been trying to add more to make an interesting storyline.
Good blog!
Skippy., May 13th, 2008 at 07:19:16am