Write a story is a fun thing to do, especially if you had a lot of idea and imagination. The presence of the story can make your writing more interesting. A good story should be able to make the reader got interested and curious.
But for some people write a fiction is a hard thing to do. You need to push your idea and your imagination to understand every element of your story. That's why there no many people interested to be a novelist or an author. It took times a lot and sometimes it can't be compared with the others job.
Now, I want to share about how to write a fiction story for beginners (newbie). I hope these tips can be run well soon for someone who wants to start a writing project.
Write Fiction For Beginners
1. Preparing Storyline Format
You must decide first your format works. Is the story is a big space or not, if not then you can choose a short story or one-shot novel books. If your story is so big, then you can make a serial book later. Then you can start to choose the best point of view for your works, and the plot, the background story and else.
*Important point for Storyline Format
A. Plot
B. Point Of View
C. Characters (many or few)
D.The Main story (your core story about what)
E. Story scale (big or small story size)
2. Core Idea
Every book came from ideas, dreams, and imaginations. It transformed into biggers things based on progress on your story. Try to make it simple your core idea, but keep the interesting part to show them later. You can find the core idea based on your experience, or your daily life, hobbies, and many more.
Put your core idea into your framework storyline, connecting the idea to your storyline format, make a short link to make these things easier, so you can start writing based on the structure that you create before.
3. Explore Your Topic Deeply
If you already had the core idea now its time to make it more detail again. Try to learn about your topic completely. Get more references that are related to your topic, keep all the data so you can call it later if you get stuck in the middle of works.
*Tips to Explore Topic
• Describing (What is your topic about, and why you want to write the topic)
• Comparing (what is your topic look like, why you must write this topic, and what is the different with the others)
• Associating (How to develope the topic to get more interaction, what is the new things on your topics or the interesting part on it)
• Analyze (what element that builds up your topics)
• Evaluate (try to fix the less good parts, make sure all of the ideas are linked each other to your story)
• Action (Do it right away after you already make these things clear, don't slow down your pace)
4. Do Mind-Mapping
Started to imagine your element and find the best way to make it happen. You can start mind-mapping from your main character, or your climax moment on the story. Use the best part of your story to find the others part that still related to your core story.
*Tips Story Mind-Mapping
-Find the possibility that still makes sense with your main line story
-Combine all of the outer parts of your main story and fix the bad part later
-Simplify all of the parts and create some overview of your story
5. Do Some Research
The more you take to research the more you can get references. Fiction story got bigger and reliable alongside with the research things. You can't write fiction without research, yes, of course, you can but the result is too rude.
*Tips For Research Fiction Story
-Find similar things about your character, and another element of the story
-Learn about moment that related to your story (from tv, daily life, event, etc)
-See the people act, their dialogue, their habits, and their emotion too.
7 Steps to Start Write a Fiction
1. Set a Background of Story
Try to simplify things about your Story by creating a basic background story. Choose the background place as a foundation for your whole story. Is it a modern world, or a fantasy world, or maybe the medieval world. After you set the background, start to gather the references, about things in your universe, such as culture, seasons, weather, people, etc.
2. Set a Point Of View (POV)
Choosing a POV is very important for your story. It will determine your style and to make it easier for people who read your story too. I suggest to choose first POV if your story is not big enough, but if the story full of a lot of characters, the third POV much more convenient.
3. Create Outline Story
To make it simple, you must create an outline story so you can make point by point each chapter of your story. No need details in this section, just make keynote each chapter and find the interesting part from it (focus on main character progress and build up your conflict gradually)
4. All Character Must Make senses
Make sure that your characters make sense. Create strength and weakness about your character, so it more sensible and reliable by the reader. Progress about your main character is important things too. Don't make a strong character at the first time, or if you want to do that, make sure that the character drops down later to keep the interesting part stay alive, so people curious and have some emotion too.
5. Take Action
All of your preparation means nothing if you don't start to write now. Bring balance between narration and dialogue, so people feel the sensation about your character, your background and of course show them about your character emotion, not telling them (Write your character gesture or things they do on the dialogue, don't tell the emotion directly)
6. Set a Target
You must set a target to complete your story, try to make it simple by writing each chapter per day or each page per day. All you have to do is keep writing every day, spend some time at your work. Don't get down, write a fiction story is just like a journey, you need a lot of energies, and supplies to complete this task.
7. Read Again Your Story
Revision is a must things to do in the writing world. You can read again your works and start to fix out things to sharpen your story. Delete or changing a plot can happen here, but make sure you finished out the whole story first, then start to edit your works.
Tips Writing Fiction
- Write it down everything that is related to your story, so you can use it later depends on the need of your story. Just try to record as much as you can about things in your life, maybe useful later for your works.
-Have a fun moment in your daily life, a good mood bring good inspirations, it will boost your works too. So make sure you had a good mood before you start writing.
-Don't show the details too much, just show the good point about your details.
-If you had a writer's block, don't be panic, keep calm and try to relax first. Find something new in activities, it can bring you new energies that boost up your works later.
-Find the idea from every moment, the inspiration appears from anywhere. Changes all of the inspiration into a good story, bring the senses come to life and let your soul become happy.
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