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Simple Steps To Write A Story

Here is guidelines that will help you with a writing process, find clarity by beginning strong and carrying the story through to the end:

1. Ideas generation. Write down every single idea that comes to your mind. More the better. Write everything you want, everything that bothers you. Don’t pay attention of quality of ideas at this stage. Write as much ideas as you can.

2. Filtration. In this stage we take hardcore approach to ideas. Discard all weak ideas and leave powerful ones that are worth writing a story.

3. Selection. Review ideas that you have selected. Which ones are the best? How you can improve them? Try to choose just one idea that will serve to you future plot.

4. Logline is a concept development. Describe your concept of the story in one sentence. For example, after an incident an advertising executive gain an ability to hear what women are really thinking (“What women want”). Try to enhance some drama to the story, add bit of conflict or intrigue.

5. Name the story. Think of working title for your story.

6. Comparison. Pick one or two of your favorite books in a same genre you are writing in and use them as a guideline to your story.

7. Structure. Make a structure of a story and define which parts need more work.

8. Character development. What are their advantages and disadvantages? How the main character is going to change by the end of the story? What he needs to learn? How personalities and actions of the characters reflect to the storyline of your story?

9. Synopsis. Describe the story in two or thee pages.

10. Give more detailed description of the story and include dialogues and write whole story from the beginning till the end.

11. Draft. Finish your first draft and put it aside for a week or two.

12. Editing. Try to rewrite your draft at least six times.

· In the second version of your draft fix inconsistencies, implausible moments and flaws in a plot. Check whether your idea follow original concept of the story, and take out everything that doesn’t serve to the goals of a larger piece.

· Third. Look though the structure. Make sure that your storyline on its own place. What can you take out without losing the idea?

· Fourth. Pay attention to the characters. Do you really need all of them? Who behaves incongruously to his/hers personality?

· Fifth. Edit dialogs. Make sure that each character speaks in a unique way and it’s matching their personality.

· And the last time, sixth. Correct all your grammatical errors.

Look carefully if there are things that can be improved. What word is better replace one word with another? Where to put space, comma, etc.?

13. Publish. If you are you happy with final version, give a name to the story and… its ready! Share it with your friends. Let them read and criticize. If you agree with their feedback, apply them and make some improvements to the story.

Good luck! :)

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SilentWind SilentWind
Thanks for all the tips! I have been writing on and off but I'm picking up the pace now and all these tips are super helpful ☺️
July 25, 2023, 15:50
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