STORY WRITING
Story Writing STORY TELLING IS AN ART It is a rare gift. Of recent years there has been a good deal of theorizing about Short Story as an art form. These theorists have framed many rules to help the beginner, but as far as the practical art of writing concerned, they are of little importance. To tell a story well a long practice required. An exceptionally gifted Story-teller may build an interesting story out of an ordinary situation. This is what Poe or O. Henry does. But a young student need not be so ambitious. The examiner wants just a readable narrative with some kind of plot in which main points are arranged in a proper order. To write a good story, you must plan it out in your mind and then arrange the events in the order of time in which they occurred. If events are narrated in the wrong sequence, it will spoil the coherence or unity of the story. SOME IMPORTANT HINTS 1. Make an outline of the story with a clear idea of the plot and the main characters containe...