HOW
TO BE A GOOD WRITER
I think
everyone can write a story and every people have different ways to express
their feeling into a story. A story is a journey told in words, images and
sounds, like a rhythm, combined with some techniques and a pattern of movement.A
story uses full of imagination to write what, when, where and why the story
happen. Usually, every writer have their own way to write a good story.
In this case, I
will not teach you about how to be a good writer, but I just will give you some
suggestions about how to write a story. Absolutely, it will need more practice.
You should not be afraid if your result true or false, because there is no
‘Formula’ in writing. It just needs your imagination and your words.
There are some
skills of writing that you should practice to write a good story :
1.
Write clear sentences and paragraphs which communicate the ideas,
thoughts and emotion you intend. For example take a situation, an event or a
conversation and write it down. See how well you communicate the essence
of the moment.
2.
Be able to use words, sentences and fragments to create an effect
on the reader. Realize that your word choice and the pattern of your writing
has an effect on the reader. In this step, take the same event and now add and
change the words to make them matter.
3.
Be a psychologist, therapist, observer, intuitive who is able to
puzzle out how and why people think and feel they way they do. The point is
become an incredible observer of what’s really underneath it all. In this step,
you should give your characters’ backstory, emotional quirks and some deep
thoughts based on your observations.
4.
Have an internal imagination that can make up worlds that don’t
exist.We can all make believe but only if we can get away from the critical
part of our brains. The critical, logical part of our brains doesn’t want to
allow nonsense to thrive. But imagination is all about nonsense. That’s what
makes it so wonderful.If you already relish your illogical, magical imagination
practice letting seeing it on paper regularly to strengthen it. If you don’t
hear or see your illogical imagination often, work at it.You may never need it,
but it’s always good to have. In this case, action you should practice is set
your event in a strange land. Make some weird things happen. Play.
5.
Have observational and research skills to document worlds and
people that do exist. You should practice to dramatize the situation with a
historical or geographical bent. Make the event part of an important
moment in our lives.
6.
Know the patterns and rhythms that hook an audience and take them
on an imaginary journey of your making. The writers make connections between
various parts of information that eventually lead to some kind of emotional
high fevered pitch. The writers job is to become exceedingly good at shaping
information into clever molds.
7.
Use the tools of genre to fulfill and audience’s expectation of
what they are going to feel.
Genre is nothing more than an
expectation of how an audience will feel when they see the movie or read the
book. Don’t over think it. Horror movies should be scary. Comedies
should be funny. Writers however, can out think themselves from actually
writing a scary movie or a funny movie. That’s the problem with being smart. Sometimes
you forget the whole reason you wanted to write is because stories make us
feel.
8.
Use storytelling tools to make the uninteresting exciting.
You
can make the mundane exciting. You can make exciting boring. It’s how you show
and tell the events that makes the difference.
9.
Fearlessness.
Get
over needing to be cool, smart, creative, wise, important, a great writer, a
huge success or any other ego-dominated thought that is really just a tool for
avoiding shame and humiliation. Be
willing to be humiliated. Be willing to be terrible. Be willing to be a beginner even though you
were the smartest person in your class.
The truth is there is no danger.
10. Embrace
uncertainty.
Over
and over again, I see writers who are so smart. The problem with being smart is
creativity isn’t. Creativity is genius.
Genius often looks stupid. Genius
doesn’t follow the rules. Genius looks
like it’s going nowhere until then suddenly, you’ll realize it’s the perfect
place.
This is a skill. It’s the
skill of letting go of needing to know how it all works out. It’s the skill of embracing uncertainty. Wake up and let your fingers just listen to
the voice that’s talking to you. It might
make sense or it might not. Later on,
you can figure out if you like the words.
If you do, you can edit them, add some plosives, add some tension and
storytelling tricks. Throw in a genre
and suddenly you have a story.
Those are all suggestions if you
want to be able to write a story. So, just practice it and keep enjoy writing
your story.
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