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:.Hey x3My name is Emily and blah blah blah.
:.I have a lot of personal, family, and friend issues of my own so a lot of times, I can probably relate to you a lot of times if you have personal, family, and/or friend issues.
:.I can offer a lot of information, help, and advice on family and friend relationships, love lives, depression, stretching/flexibility, weight loss, violin, being organized, dog training, forensics (public speaking), keeping up with school/extracurricular activities, eating disorders, writing (stories and poems), and probably a lot of other random stuff like what to drink when you eat something spicy and why.
:.Although I can help a lot of you guys on the above subjects, I don't tend to take my own advice so it can become quite an awkward/ironic/contradicting situation for me or make myself sound like a complete and utter hypocrite.
:.Hannah Whitall Smith once said, "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." I agree 100% of it. Advice is advice and it is given when asked for. I give it and I leave it at that. It's up to the questioner/advice seeker to take it.
:.That point leads onto my philosophies in advice giving:
1. Advice is given when asked and no time else, unless your friend is about to irritate a black bear, then you should definitely advice your friend to back away and run for his or her life.
2. Advice is not critical, not judgmental, and definitely not biased. Advice is advice and should remain neutral.
3. Advice is to help, not to get 5s on every answer. As a result, my advice ends up being quite blunt and frank with a hint of rambling mixed in.
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:.If you want to ask me a question directly...
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the thing is, i need to write a story but i don't know how to really start it. anybody got any ideas? please and thank you!
First things first:
What are you writing about?
Is it a fiction, non-fiction,historical, fantasy, horror, mystery, action, manga, etc.
What do YOU want to write about? Do you want to write a dramatic story, humorous, random, fighting, etc.
Get a notebook or just a simple piece of paper and write down whatever topic appeals to you. Do you want a love story? If so, who are your characters going to be? How are they going to meet? Is it going to be a happy ending or a sad ending or an ending that wants to make the readers scream "WHY DID YOU DO THAT!"??? How are you going to write the story so that it ends in the manner you want it to end? What are the problems that characters may face? How are they going to solve them?
For me, it really helps if I write down a bunch of ideas. From there, I'll look through and pick out one that appeals to me the most or something I can really write about. Then I do sort of a beginning and end brainstorming (don't worry, this can all change as you write!). I think, "Well, this is how it's going to start off...then this is how it's going to end." Then I do a general "outline" of what's going to happen, how it's going to get to the end sort of thinking. Then I do research on topics I may have questions about while writing whether it's a historical context or something about adoption or pregnancy, etc. THEN depending on the "outline" you made for your story, you pick which PoV is going to be the easiest/best way to write it in: first person, third person limited, or third person omniscient. Then I decide...is it going to be chapterless, filled with chapters, diary format, telling the past through flashbacks or dreams, starting from that past point as like a memory/story telling by a character, or start at that "past" as the present, going back and forth between characters who tell the story, etc.
This is overwhelming so here's the basics of story writing:
1.Brainstorm ideas you want to write about.
2.Pick an idea that appeals to you the most from the list you made.
3.Think of a general beginning and ending.
4.Make an outline of how you're going to get from the beginning to the ending (it really helps if you have in mind certain events you want the story to have/write about).
5.Make a story outline:
a. Character (describe all your characters as much or as little as you want)
b. Plot
c. Events (in the order you want them to appear)
d. Setting (time, place, etc.)
e. Notes (anything relating to the story you have/researched).
6. Research anything that might be useful/will be useful for you to write the story to fill in the "notes" section of your story outline.
7. From what you have so far, decide how your story will be told (1st person, 3rd person, diary, narration, past/present dream, thinking back, having more than one character telling the story, an outside observer telling the story, etc. Be creative!)
We cannot give you ideas. It's your story, you should write about something you thought of that you like =)
If you want other people to read your stories/poems and give you constructive criticism so you can improve, visit storywrite.com It's the best site ever.
Good luck!
Emily
16/f
(Rating: 5) thanks. your advice was great!