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BRAINY STUFF
HOW TO WRITE A STORY
Like a great
journey, literature can show you things you have never seen
before and will never forget. Literature gives order to human
experience. It explores cultural values. It demands an emotional
response from the reader. To write a story, it requires real
experience and also to dive into the imagination world and it
sure isn’t a cup of tea for all! Written literature includes a
huge variety of text, both fiction and non fiction, such as
poetry, plays, novels, short stories, travel accounts, diaries,
autobiographies, biographies, collection of letters, essays,
histories and philosophy. Oral Literature include folk tales,
epic poems, children’s rhymes, riddles, prayers and made up
stories. Freesouls scoops into the Literature world to provide
basic guidelines on the Elements of Literature :
Some of the Principal elements are plot, theme, style, image,
sound patterns, and characterization. Sometimes a detective
story might have a plot and other elements but may not have
sound patterns or a lyric poem will contain sound and image
patterns but no plot! However, to write a story, the following
pattern is applicable:
Charaters : Memorable
characters come alive as readers read. They live on the page, in
mind and heart. Yet, they really don’t exist! Writers must know
their characters thoroughly and have a clear picture of each
one’s appearance, speech and thoughts. It becomes easier to
describe action or ideas. The characters make up the central
interest of many dramas and novels as well as autobiographies.
Hence, built up a character that best suits your story.
Motivation: Character
determines action. So, motives of the character in writing make
sense. Tom Sawyer and Oliver Twist are two difference characters
and likewise, if twisted than these classics would turn into a
different kind of book. Therefore, motivation means the reason
for a character’s actions.
Setting:
This is the place where the
character’s story occurs. The characters do not hang in space
but their existence is build around the world somewhere,
imagined or described place by the author. Even an alien has an
imaginery place to live in an outer world! The Missouri of Tom
Sawyer is very different from the London of Oliver Twist and
these differences help in setting up two characters. Writers
describe the world they know. Sights, sounds, colors, and
textures are all vividly painted in words as an artist paints
images on canvas. A writer imagines a story to be happening in a
place that is rooted in his or her mind. The location of a
story's actions, along with the time in which it occurs, is the
setting. Setting is created by language. How many or how few
details we learn is up to the author.
Plot: It tells us
what happens to the character in the story. A plot is built
around a series of events that take place within a definite
period of time. No rules exist for the order in which the events
are presented. A unified plot has a beginning, a middle and an
end. The story has an exposition, rising action, a climax,
outcome. The exposition gives background or situation of the
story. The rising action builds upon the creation, suspense or
reader’s desire to find what happens next and the climax is the
highest point of interest. It’s like a character with a problem,
how he faces the problems and the end as to how he overcomes the
problem – a happy or a sad note or maybe letting the readers
conclude
Theme:
The theme develops from the
interplay of character and plot. The theme may warn a reader to
lead a better life or a different kind of life. In short, convey
the author’s moral beliefs.. The theme of a fable is its moral.
The theme of a parable is its teaching. The theme of a piece of
fiction is its view about life and how people behave.
In fiction, the theme is not intended to teach or preach. In
fact, it is not presented directly at all. You extract it from
the characters, action, and setting that make up the story. In
other words, Sentimental or emotional, the reader draws his own
conclusions on the theme of the story. The writer's task is to
communicate on a common ground with the reader. Although the
particulars of your experience may be different from the details
of the story, the general underlying truths behind the story may
be just the co-check out the title. Sometimes it tells you a lot
about the theme.
Style: This is the
way the writer uses words to create Literature. One word
following the other, one paragraph leading to the next. The way
writers write is a part of what they have to say. What kind of
words to use, how to present details or should the paragraphs be
long or short? These are the questions that requires answers to
solve the problems of style of writing. First place narration or
third person narrated story. Attitude is also a style – positive
or negative style of writing is very important. |
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WRITER
Grab your pens or click on to the
keyboards and write stuff right! Writing is a hobby that you can
pursue anywhere, anytime with the right attitude of ‘Reading’ –
Its awareness all the way. After all, all Literature needs
readers who help to create literature by responding to the ideas
and thoughts of a writer.
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