How to write a story

How to write a story

1. Suspense is important

   • El suspenso es importante para mantener a la persona interesada en lo que está leyendo Suspense is important to keep the person interested in what they are reading
     • And so you can ask questions like "is he going to do it?"

2. Show dont tell

   • If something important happens to the main character, you dont have to tell it, you have to show it
     • You have to transfer the emotion to the reader

3. Death of the Characters

   • Every person will die someday, do the death of a relevant character in the stiry will add some acction and mistery

4. Break the rules

   • The rules are necessary for almost everything, and it is very important to follow them, but you do not have to set limits, you have to respect the rules but inventing new rules is also necessary
     • Even if you abide by the rules, remember that the main thing is the story

5. Write at least three drafts

   • The sketches are very important to review your story, to see if there are writing errors or simply the story does not match what you were thinking
     • that is why with each sketch you make the story will improve, with better details, better writing , coherence and a better development of the story in general

6. Share the work

   • One of the best thing to do is to writo for someone, because you know that maybe you will fail so that makes you think to do the best story ever and please the reader
     • One of the best exercices for this are entering a writing contest, so you can share your story with people and improve you knowledge in stories

7. Good dialogues

   • Each character has to have their own voice with their emotions
     • If when rereading they do not agree, they have to rewrite so that those feelings coincide

8. Dont get blocked

   • If you got out of ideas and you are blocked, the only thing to do is to keep writing, even if you think that the idea of the story is wrong, you have to keep writing so after you read it you can get more ideas and improve your work

9. Don't put so much effort into the first edition

   • The sketch of the story serves to improve the next one so you do not have to put so much time on this one, just the ideas without so much detail

10. The protagonist

    • The protagonist is very important, without a good protagonist or without a well-developed protagonist the story will not be so good
      • The protagonist has to be involved in some problem so that he has to make decisions and in the end he has to dissolve that problem.