Welcome to THE CONTEMPORARY TIMES: A GENERAL FICTION GUIDEBOOK. This will help you improve your writing in the General Fiction category. Enjoy and Have Fun!
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TIP ONE: GET TIPS ON HOW TO WRITE A STORY.
- Writing a General Fiction or any genre, you have to know first: How to write a story? What are the elements of the story?
- Yep, that is my first advice to you, because if you know how to do the first stage of writing, knowing the writing. You can begin writing and you can prove the evidence of writing.
TIP TWO: WRITE A PLOT.
- It is important to know your story, to go to the flow of your story. Like: If you don't know your story then your story won't cooperate with you to. In PH term: sabog! In English term: messy! Your story will be messy, will be out of direction, the flow will be like river with two direction.
TIP THREE: HAVE A CATCHY TITLE
- So this first page tips will be most likely stages on how to write a story. Once you finished creating a plot for your story, have a catchy title for your story.
- For example: If the plot talks about force marriage then search on the Google or any website about words that matches force marriage, or marriage rather. Pick a beautiful word or a unique word that satisfy you or the readers.
- But also, it is up to you. It can be either: Fancy, titles that rhyme, metaphors, simple, a quote title or it can be words that are on the other language.
- Mostly, titles that catch my attention, personally, are titles that are in other language: French or Spanish. Because Honestly they put my curiosity running that makes me seek for it, but by not searching for it hence at reading it on my own risks.
FOURTH TIP: HAVE A CHARACTER SKETCH
- Like what I said on the plot, you need to have a character sketch as a guide so you'll never lost direction
- Having a unique personality will make readers curious.
- Give your main character a good personality or a bad personality. HAVE A CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT or what we call dynamics.
FIFTH TIP: HAVE A QUESTION MARK ON DESCRIPTION OR 1ST CHAPTER
- It is important to a description or 1st chapter to have a question behind it, for their will be a question to readers mind. So they'll continue reading it until they found answer. But also make every chapter exciting.
- If you are curious about, if this is mystery? Every story has a conflict. And it is important. And even General Fiction has a conflict, it needs to have because if it doesn't have then it is not called a story.
SIXTH TIP: IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE YOU EXPERIENCE ITSELF
- Tell what you know, tell what it feels to be on that situation, Experience it. Tell your own story.
- Or otherwise if you can't experience it yourself, get survey, ask questions to others or to others who experienced that
- Or you can also search online on how to do that.
- Why do you need this? Because again, General fiction focuses on daily life of the main lead
SEVENTH TIP: BRAINSTORMING
- You should read and read and read about stories and advices on GenFic.
EIGHT TIP: HAVE A GOOD DIALOGUE.
- It is good to have a good dialogue. Like using Literary Fiction to this so you can attract readers by those words. But then avoid "enemy words" this could be a foul if it happens.
- And also to have a good dialogue, you must imagine how the character itself will read that dialogue
NINTH TIP: REVISED!
- I know that time is important now that time is tickling as fast as how the dryer spins at the washing machine. But if you are not satisfied and you want to try more, or if you think this will improve the story then go on! Change it! It is good for your story and your mind to be focus.
