This week I wanted to take some time out to talk about
what is involved in trying to create a story that everyone wants to read. The
first thing that I would like to mention is that this is from my point of view in
which I used to create my own story and that every writer has their own way in
which they do it.
The reason that I wanted to write about this topic is
because this will be the template to coming topic that I want to talk about later
on in the year when I look at other stories plus I have this feeling that a lot
of people don’t realise how much work really goes into writing and creating
their own story.
Now the reason that I wanted to write stories is
because I have spent a lot of my life reading, watching and playing all
different types of stories and I have found that it is because of these story
and the way in which they are down that keeps on bring me back to them later
down then line.
As I said moments ago ever write has a different way in
which they go about writing their own stories and that can also be said for the
way in which they create their own ideas too. If you have been reading any of
my blog’s as of late you might have noticed that I have spoken about writing my
own story and that I would like to get in published some day.
When creating any type of story the first thing that
anyone needs to do is to work out what the story is about and how it will end. The
reason that I believe that this is very important is because you at least know
where it is going. For me the end of my story came to me when I was seating in
a car trying to break up with my girlfriend at the time, let’s just say we
didn’t break up then because I wanted to get home as soon as possible to write
down every that came to me at that point. The moment that I got home I grabbed
a bit of paper and to start writing everything that I could remember of how the
story was going to end, all I placed on the piece of paper was the outline of
how it was going to end, I had no location or
character names in place that this time.
Once I had written this down I then got another piece
of paper and started to write down who were going to be the bad guy, good guy Locations,
ages, what made up them who they were and what could happen afterwards. The
reasoning behind all this was so that I could get all of this within my story
and to have some idea where the story could go if I wanted to write anymore
stories.
With this basic information I knew that I could start
out lining the direction in which my story was going to take. The best way that
I found to do this was to get a note book and do bullet points of what I believed
was going to happen and in what order. This is what I would like to call the
beginning of story structure because once I had completed it I now had an
outline of what was going to happen and when, all that I had to do now was to
fill in the blanks.
As you can see before I had even started writing my own
story I had a lot of work to do before hand, think about the amount of pre
production that film makes have to do before they start shooting their film.
The time that It took me to get all of this information down was about a week.
The hardest part that I discovered when I started writing
the story was trying to get everything that I had put into my notes into the
story, the reason that is hard is because deep down you want everything to go
into it but some time when you start to write up parts of the story it just
doesn’t flow very well so it is sometimes easier to take it out or change
things round so that it still flows.
Now you might be ask why did I have so many notes
before I started writing and the answer to that question is I don’t have the
best memory and second was so that I had some kind of record that I could keep
going back to.
I do hope that by reading this that everyone can see that
there is a lot of work that does go into creating a great story and those that
create these stories have the right to tell it the way they want to because it
is their idea to begin with.
Until next time.
