Wholesale Fiction Writing Elements

Writing is something people can be taught to do well. Many will argue that there is no way to teach writing, but that simply isn’t true. Writing at it’s most basic is just another skill a person can have, like flower arranging, or gardening. Some people have a an affinity for painting, a natural sense for how different colors and shades blend together. With writing, it can be almost exactly the same. Nearly anyone can be taught to put the right words together in a way that makes sense, and is simultaneously entertaining to read. Storytellers have been made, not born, despite what you may have heard. Here are a few steps involved in telling a good story.

Free-writing is probably the easiest way to get yourself into writing, and can be revisited time and again to break through bouts of persistent writer’s block. In free-writing, you can do no wrong. There is no prescribed structure, so you can’t mess it up.

Don’t be discouraged at times when writing a story seems too difficult to even attempt. Choosing the type of writing for your story can be important to how confident you feel about it: short stories are limited by constraints of length, and by when and where certain plot aspects should make appearances during the flow of the story. You have to get everything into the smallest space possible for a narrative can be intimidating. You might do well to consider a longer form that gives you more freedom to meander and wind your way back around to the basic plot devices.

After you’ve decided which form of writing you’ll use, get deep into each of the elements. Plot, the first element, is what separates the free-writing from a finished story. If the plot is full of holes, so will your entire story be. Next, make sure your characters are strong and that they help drive the plot along. If the characters are flat, two-dimensional descriptions of what ought to be people, then you’re going to have trouble getting your story across. Finally pay attention to the setting. The setting is such a powerful element, consisting of where and when a story takes place, that it can take on the proportions of a minor character itself.

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