Thursday, June 5, 2014

Short Story Ideas That Would Be Helpful For Writers

By Kathleen Stine


Now there are a lot of people who would want to write some short stories but do not exactly know where they should start. Now writing stories is not a one time thing wherein one would just think up of something to write but it is actually a process that one would have to follow before creating a masterpiece. Now for those who do not know where to start, here are some short story ideas and writing tips that would be able to help.

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 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.

Now upon collecting some of the thoughts in one place, one would most likely already have an idea of the flow of the tale. Now once he already knows it, then he may now create a short outline sequencing the events. Now as for the format, one can just find a format on the internet and just fill in the blanks.

Now the basic story line would usually have the introduction, the body, the climax, and of course the ending. Now the outline will be composed of these four parts and would sometimes even include twists. Now the subheadings would be under these four parts and the subheadings would then be composed of the events that would be happening.

Now the next thing to do would be to then to write everything and then complete the short tale. From there, just fill up the entire outline and put it down in a file document. Now once that has already been done, then the next thing to do would be to edit the file and add a little bit of writing style and writing skills to it.

Now most writers do not like to edit because they think it is one big hassle. However, one should keep on editing until he feels like there is nothing wrong. Also, get a third party writer to take a look at it and give some feedback as well.




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