HOW TO CREATE A SIMPLE BUT ADDICTING STORY?

HOW TO CREATE A SIMPLE BUT ADDICTING STORY?

Nowadays, we are definitely has different perspective in reading a story. Like we most look to the cover and say that "That story has probably beautiful to read, or we say that "I will choose that story because of its casts". But the big question is how can we give our readers a simple but addicting story?

These are the steps that will help you to write not just good but better story.
According to Joe Bunting https://thewritepractice.com/write-story/

1. WRITE IN ONE SITTING

Write the first draft of your story in as short a time as  possible. If you're writing a short story, try write it in one sitting. If  you're writing a novel, try to write it in one season(three months).Don't worry too much about plotting or outlining beforehand. You can do that once you know you have a story to tell in the first place. Your draft is a discovery process. You are like an archeologist digging an ancient city out of the clay. You might have a few clues about where your city is buried beforehand, but you don't know what it will look like until it's unearthed. All that's to say, get digging!

2. DEVELOP YOUR PROTAGONIST

Stories is about protagonist, if you don't have a good protagonist, you won't have a good story. The essential ingredients for protagonist is that they must make decisions. Victor frankl said, " A Human is a deciding being". Your protagonist must make a decision to get herself into what ever mess she gets into in your story, and likewise, she must come to a crisis point and decide to get herself out of the mess. To further develop your protagonist, use other character archetypes like the villain, the protagonist opposite, or the fool, a sidekick character that reveals the protagonist's softer side.

3. CREATE SUSPENSE AND DRAMA

To create suspense, set up a dramatic question is something like, "Is he going to make it?" or, "Is she going to get the man of her dreams", by putting your protagonist's fate in doubt, you make the reader ask, What happens next? NOTE: To do this well, you need to carefully restrict the flow of information to the reader nothings destroys drama like over-sharing.

4. SHOW, DON'T TELL

Honestly, the saying “show, don’t tell” is overused. However, when placed next to the step above, it becomes very effective.

When something interesting happens in your story that changes the fate of your character, don’t tell us about it. Show the scene! Your readers have a right to see the best parts of the story play out in front of them. Show the interesting parts of your story, and tell the rest.

5. Write Good Dialogue

Good dialogue comes from two things: intimate knowledge of your characters and lots of rewriting.
Each character must have a unique voice, and to make sure your characters all sound different, read each character’s dialogue and ask yourself, “Does this sound like my character?” If your answer is no, then you have some rewriting to do.

Also, with your speaker tags, try not to use anything but “he said” and “she said.” Speaker tags like “he exclaimed,” “she announced,” and “he spoke vehemently” are distracting and unnecessary. The occasional “he asked” is fine, though

6. WRITE ABOUT DEATH

Think about the last five novels you read. In how many of them did a character die? Good stories often involve death. Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Charlotte’s Web, The Lord of the Rings, and more all had main characters who died. Death is the universal theme because every person who lives will one day die. Tap the power of death in your storytelling.

7. EDIT LIKE A PRO

Your second draft isn’t for polishing, although many new writers will try to polish as soon as they can to clean up their embarrassing first draft. Instead, the second draft is meant for major structural changes and for clarifying the plot and characters of your novel or the key ideas of your non-fiction book.The third draft is for deep polishing. Now is when everything starts to gel. This is the fun part! But until you write the first two drafts, polishing is probably a waste of your time.

8. KNOW RULES, THEN BREAK THEM

Good writers know all the rules and follow them. Great writers know all the rules and break them. However, the best writers don’t break the rules arbitrarily. They break them because their stories require a whole new set of rules. Respect the rules, but remember that you don’t serve the rules. You serve your stories.

9. DEFEAT WRITER'S BLOCK

The best way to defeat writers block is to write. If you’re stuck, don’t try to write well. Don’t try to be perfect. Just write.Sometimes, to write better stories, you have to start by taking the pressure off and just writing.

10. SHARE YOUR WORK

You write better when you know someone will soon be reading what you’ve written. If you write in the dark, no one will know if you aren’t giving your writing everything you have. But when you share your writing, you face the possibility of failure. This will force you to write the best story you possibly can.

One of the best ways to write a story and share your writing is to enter a writing contest. The theme will inspire a new creation, the deadlines will keep you accountable, and the prizes will encourage you to submit—and maybe win! We love writing contests here at The Write Practice. Why not enter our next one?

Now , if you are beginner in writing a story these will probably can help you a lot. And we hope that we can  read one of your works!