A&B chapter 18 skill 8.1

When writing a good story, its good to make sure that you know the difference between an effective story and an “and then narrative” and how to make sure that your writing is an effective interesting narrative, one good way of doing this is to follow these 4 rules

1) It must have a depiction of events through time, in short you must have an event that you are trying to convey. This can be a significant event in your life, a lesson that you learned, a fictional tale that you came up with, but you need to be telling your audience something.

2) The story must have connectedness, when writing your story you need to think of what are the important points, how did you get from one point to another and what information is relevant. For example if you were writing a story about preparing in the summer for the next season of football, you would mention the things that you did for that training, but you probably wouldn’t mention the vacations that you went on.

3) It must have tension or conflict, If you are going through the story without some sort of event that you are leading up to, then it doesn’t draw the reader in, it becomes simply a tale to let someone know, when you add tension or conflict, it helps the reader know what it is that they are reading for or what to expect.

4) Resolution, Recognition or retrospective interpretation, One you finish the tension or conflict you need to wrap everything, fix the conflict, come to terms with the ordeal or learn something from the event.