Tag: stories

Stories are what’s left after our experiences have come and gone

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I won’t lie, a lot of my experiences with the real world have let me down, but I could always count on creating my own world to escape it all. Doodles, paintings, crafts, choreography, until eventually learning how to pour my heart out on paper by giving life to my thoughts. I like to call this place “the nothing space”. Turning some of life’s most painful moments into something perpetually alluring helped me to survive them. Overcome them. learn from them. And while, of course, my life has certainly not been all doom and gloom, writing has helped me celebrate and appreciate the good times, too.

https://kaitlynalexisorth.com/about

Somewhere along the way I got deep, and personal

Keywords: journal writing , gaming , story , travel , writing , your story

I once thought of starting out every blog with, ‘Once upon time…’ because I thought it was cute and different. Once I thought about writing about dreams we have and sharing them with one another. Did you have a nightmare? what was your last dream about that you can remember? Those ideas have crossed my mind. I might even make a blog about that.

https://p1nkpunk0x.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/write-your-story

Cron suggests that stories fail when they are merely a series of events

Keywords: writing , david moldawer , lisa cron , novel writing

This happened and then this happened and then this happened. It’s like you telling me in boring detail how you drove to my house. Quite frankly, I don’t care how you got here, I just care that you’ve arrived safely.

Good stories keep moving you forward because something happens that leads to something else happening. There’s a causal relationship between events that connects them and makes sense to the reader. Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes it takes a while for that reason to be revealed.

The author’s job is to make you wonder what happened and why it happened.

https://margaretmoon.com/2020/11/22/how-stories-work

I would love to hear from anyone reading this!

Keywords: AmWriting, Character Development, Creativity, WIP, World Building

If you have have ever worked on or successfully completed writing a story, please reach out! Let me know in the comments below, what you found to be the hard hardest part of putting your story together? Did you find the world building overwhelming? Did you know know the start and the end, but you had no idea how to connect the two? Or maybe the opposite, you knew what happens in the middle, but not where to start it or how to end it? Not only would I love to know, but I think it will be helpful to others who come across my blog as they won’t feel like they’re the only ones struggling when putting their story together.

https://xavierawright.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/welcome-to-xaviers-quest