1. Comments:
“WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW TO BE ABLE TO
WRITE MY OWN STORY?”
Flash Fiction?
2. There’s more
to writing a
story than
telling a story.
Writing
involves
choosing
Think about how people words to
may react to crazy create tension
circumstances and stir
emotion.
To write a good story you should choose
the right character, plot, descriptions and
Think about mad dialogues. Also If you don’t have a good
situations that vocabulary it will be difficult to express
could happen yourself.
So… can anyone write
When you already have an a novel?
understanding about the idea of
the topic of your story, you don’t Everyone can try.
have to worry much about the Not all will succeed.
characters, details and dialogues.
3. How Long should Punctuation: why do
a story be? we need it, anyway?
I realized that in English class we where
writing flash fiction, not short stories.. Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of
language: they tell us to slow down, notice
something and take a stop
100 - 1,000 words
This is the type of short-short story that
you can find in a magazine.
You can find 'regular'
short stories in news
papers and children's
books.
1,000 - 7,500 “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”
words “Woman: Without her, man is nothing”
These sentences show
Novelette: how a slight change in
It Is difficult to sell to
a publisher because
punctuation can
it is too long to insert completely change all
7,500 - 20,000
into a magazine and the meaning of a
words too short for a novel. sentence. And, by the
way, the second one is
right .
4. A good vocabulary does
not mean you know many
long or difficult words.
5. To be able to write a short story you need to have a good why writers should practice
understanding about the idea of your story. With the idea of grammar? does it
what your story is about, you can begin to write.
matter?...
You need to know how to use punctuations, since they help
you to understand the reading better. The punctuation tells Here is the answer:
you when to stop, slow down and how to express your
tone! (“?”,”!”)
grammar?
is,
Importtant
Also you must know how long a short story is because if you
over write it, then it wouldn’t be a short story, instead it
would be a novelette.
Having good vocabulary would help the reader to be able
to comprehend better. A good vocabulary helps you to
express yourself more. It is not 100% necessary because you
can also express yourself by simple words, but it would be
better and more interesting if you use long or short words
that you never heard of.
Grammar is essential to write a story. If your story contains
grammatical mistakes your readers are going to have a
hard time understanding it.
In Conclusion to be able to write a short
story you need to know:
Grammar mistake
•An idea of what is Good Story
going to be your
story about.
•Good use of
punctuation
•Good vocabulary
•Good grammar
•Know how long your
story should be Nothing is more distracting than being yanked
out of a good story because a word is
And creativity. misspelled or a punctuation mark is misplaced.
6. A good vocabulary does
not mean you know many
long or difficult words.
Instead, it means that you
know how to
so that the
reader will
understand
your
material.
It is worthwhile to
constantly work at
improving your knowledge
of words.