Tips For Story Writing

                                                Theme

 A theme is something important in a story, like a lesson. It's not really important for every story to have a theme, but it's better if it does. Theme is sometimes defined as the moral of a story, though theme doesn't have to be a moral. A stories theme may not come out as a moral at all. For example in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the theme is staying good and pure at heart, and then being rewarded because of that. Themes may deal with principles and abstractions rather than people. Usually a writer decides upon the theme before writing the story for example this story will be about jealousy, bravery, hard-work pays off, friendship, loyalty, magic, kindness, love or faith.

                                                              

                                                        Plot

The plot of a story describes the events that make up a story or the main part of the story. Its like the plan or the idea of the story. You can't make up a story without a plot. Here is an example  of the plot of a short story "Todd loses his job".  

                                        

                                   

A plot builds up having five main elements:

EXPOSITION: Part of the work that introduces characters, setting and situation.

RISING ACTION: All the events that lead up to the climax.

CLIMAX: The highest point of interest or suspense in the story.

FALLING ACTION: All the events that come after the climax
RESOLUTION: The end of the story\conflict.

                                                       

                                                  STORY STRUCTURE

Decide about writing either in “present tense” or in “past tense.” Writing in past tense means writing as if the story already happened. Writing in present tense means writing as if the story is happening right now. Stick to one tense at a time. Its also important to decide whether the story is fiction or non-fiction. Figure out the problem in the story and the solution.

                                                                        

                                                                    CHARACTERS

Before you start writing, know your characters well. Your story should have a main character.You don’t have to describe a character completely. It’s enough to say one or two things about how a character looks or moves or speaks. A main character should have at least one flaw or weakness. Perfect characters are not very interesting. For example the main character in the story Alice in the wonderland is Alice and in many other stories there are characters too basically every story has characters. Its not important to have a character as a human, it could even be an animal or your own imagination. 

                                                                    

                                                                          Setting

Set your story in a place and time to make it interesting. Select a place in your story for example the place taken in the book," Charlie and the chocolate factory" is the chocolate factory.