what is your first step in writing a story?

animals - considering that readers are to be brought to the fore by this topic, i felt that this photo brought the feeling to the fore....also, the photo shows a sense of competition, which should be true in today's cut throat competition......thus, for all these reasons, this photo was selected..........
India
April 13, 2007 11:28am CST
stories are written everyday .....different genres are explored by various people .......also, different people have different styles with regard to their writing styles and also their stories........some try comedy while others explore tragedy........yet another group has romance as its forte.......for all these reasons, different people consider different ingredients as essential for their stories....there are always some ingredients without which the stories are rendered incomplete....for this reason, which is your essential ingredient .......also, which is your first step towards writing a good story.........considering that there are many good writers on mylot, this discussion will bring them to the fore........and mylot will profit from them.......even the upcoming writers will get some first hand experience as to what goes into making a good story..........
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sojournseeker
@sojournseeker (1244)
• United States
9 May 07
I have been journaling since I was about ten, writing most of the thoughts I have during the day as long as I can remember, reading alot of different books fiction and non-fiction, diversifying my spectrum of literary written wonders by many different authors from all periods in herstory (history is just for the guys ya know)... I guess the first step is having a theme, characters (at least 2 pivotal & essential and some sedcondary), a solid ending and a great start, the middle can be woven gently throughout the time it takes to create magic with your words. Use both realistic terms and understandable dialogue or logic to entertain and educate your readers. Make your world of text brilliantly visualized by word painting. Go within yourself and find the artist waiting to emerge, free your mind and express yourself ! Engage in the present, embrace in reflection the past, to enlighten on the future . . . and always write, write, write ! sharing the light and welcome to my world: http://www.enlightenment-psych.net