A story is made of a sentence or more, it narrates an incident filled with at-least an emotion.
A story communicates feelings in the form of an energy, either positive or negative.
A story can travel in past or in future, or can happen in present.
A story is a product of imagination via the roots of thinking and visualization.
A story is a precursor of an Innovation, and is a creation itself.
A STORY IS A FIRST AND SMALLEST CREATION OF HUMAN BEING.
Kurt Vonnegut- Writer, Artist- In his book "Bagombo Snuff Box Uncollected Short Fiction" listed eight rules for writing a short story.
(He had a very unique signature also.)
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Here is the best qualifier to do the smallest creation i.e. write a story.
"BRAKE ALL THESE RULES EXCEPT THE FIRST."
Here is the best qualifier to do the smallest creation i.e. write a story.
"BRAKE ALL THESE RULES EXCEPT THE FIRST."
Learn to create. We can help you.
Harsch Kumar Lall
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