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writercises Original Posting Oct. 19, 2018
Aha! What do you want to say, what is the meaning of your story? You might as well start out with that old cliché, "And the moral of the story is…"
This usually ends up being something you figure out after you have finished the first draft, or even during revision, when you can look at the whole story and see what's going on. Although maybe you'd like to start with a general idea or purpose.
Now, one part of this can be thinking about the genre. Here's one list:
Monster in the house
wish fulfillment
dude with the problem (ordinary person, extraordinary situation)
rite of passage
fool triumphant
superhero (extraordinary person, ordinary situation)
buddies (a.k.a. the odd couple, romance, and so forth)
whodunit (the mysteries!)
Institutionalized (individual versus institution)
quest
adventure
love
one against the odds
Go ahead, which genre do you want to write? Then, in that genre, what you want to say? If you had to sum up your story, the meaning of your story, in a short phrase or sentence, what would it be?
Now, for Halloween... I suppose one of the themes is that there are things in the dark that go bump! Or maybe it's scary in the dark?
You know the next step, right? Yeah...
WRITE!
Aha! What do you want to say, what is the meaning of your story? You might as well start out with that old cliché, "And the moral of the story is…"
This usually ends up being something you figure out after you have finished the first draft, or even during revision, when you can look at the whole story and see what's going on. Although maybe you'd like to start with a general idea or purpose.
Now, one part of this can be thinking about the genre. Here's one list:
Monster in the house
wish fulfillment
dude with the problem (ordinary person, extraordinary situation)
rite of passage
fool triumphant
superhero (extraordinary person, ordinary situation)
buddies (a.k.a. the odd couple, romance, and so forth)
whodunit (the mysteries!)
Institutionalized (individual versus institution)
quest
adventure
love
one against the odds
Go ahead, which genre do you want to write? Then, in that genre, what you want to say? If you had to sum up your story, the meaning of your story, in a short phrase or sentence, what would it be?
Now, for Halloween... I suppose one of the themes is that there are things in the dark that go bump! Or maybe it's scary in the dark?
You know the next step, right? Yeah...
WRITE!