Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Some Really Great Writing Tips And Short Story Ideas

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 probably the most difficult part of the entire process would be to actually come up with the plot of the entire tale. Now coming up with a plot will actually take quite a long process before the actual tale will actually be told. Now in order to complete this, one just has to make sure that he follows the process in order to make the tale.

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.

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.

After he has already filtered the important thoughts and integrated them with each other, he will have most probably created a synopsis on his head about what he wants to write about. Upon doing this, he can now create an outline. One does not need to be very strict with the outline as long as the content is there.

Now the outline would usually be composed of an introduction, the beginning, the climax, and the ending. Now there are also other small twists that may happen in the story aside from the main twist in the climax. Once one has filled this up in the outline, then he may fill the other parts as well.

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.

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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