Short Story Ideas That Would Be Useful For Writers

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By Kathleen Stine


Writing short stories does not just take a lot of superb writing skills but it also takes a lot of discipline to follow a writing process wherein one can come up with a plot and the entire story body. Now before one would actually come up with a masterpiece, he has to first follow a certain process of conceptualizing and outline before he comes up with the final output. For those who do not know where to start, here are some short story ideas and writing tips that may be useful.

Now probably the most difficult part of the entire process would be to actually come up with the plot of the entire tale. Now coming up with a plot will actually take quite a long process before the actual tale will actually be told. Now in order to complete this, one just has to make sure that he follows the process in order to make the tale.

Now the first step in this entire process is actually the conceptualization which would actually take a lot more time and effort that most people would think. Now in order to start, one has to first get notebook and start writing down some random notes that might help in the story. It can actually be about anything that he would want to include.

Now when one has already collected all the ideas that he would need, then the next thing to do would be to start connecting the pieces together. Now do take note that the ideas may be based on true stories that happened firsthand, true stories that happened to another person, or just other stories that were written before. Upon the collection of thoughts, one should now start filtering them and sorting them out.

After he has already filtered the important thoughts and integrated them with each other, he will have most probably created a synopsis on his head about what he wants to write about. Upon doing this, he can now create an outline. One does not need to be very strict with the outline as long as the content is there.

Now the basic story line would usually have the introduction, the body, the climax, and of course the ending. Now the outline will be composed of these four parts and would sometimes even include twists. Now the subheadings would be under these four parts and the subheadings would then be composed of the events that would be happening.

The next thing to do would be to then complete the tale by filling up the entire outline. Once one has already done this, he has already created his first draft and is ready for editing. Now after he has edited his first draft, he can then add a little bit more style to the writing to make it more beautiful.

One word of advice to would be writers would be to never stop editing until it is perfect. One technique for this is to make the first edit then make the second edit after a day or half a day. When the personal editing is done, then one should get a third party person to make a final edit on the draft.




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