Story Telling: The Basics

     Storytelling has been a thing for the longest time, the first ever story probably involved a caveman going “ooga booga” over and over as he explained how half of his tribe was wiped by a mammoth. It takes quite a lot of effort to write most stories and sometimes being the best of the best takes a little more. Now how do you write a perfect story? You might ask, why let a 16 year old kid who’s only experience is writing a story for a dungeons and dragons game that never happened tell you what makes a good story with things such as characters and settings, formatting of stories, and important things in each genre.

     Now the first thing that all stories have in common is the characters and settings. First thing is the characters. The characters are something you’ve always wanted to make sure is good like if you got a romance novel. Unless you are extremely good at writing you can't make the main character a manipulative jerk that gaslights the person they are in love with. 

     You’ve got to have a character that can relate with most readers when they are in love. The key with characters is that you want to have someone the person loves to be more of the good guys while people you would personally would not like a bad guy. And settings help with that a lot. The key with settings is they are places where characters are doing things and it's important that the settings are used to help with the tone of the current scene. For example a sad rainy vibe isn't going to work with a cheering happy moment. Setting helps with that and when you have the right setting the outline of a story comes next.

     The outline of a story is the most important thing. Now with the formatting of the story you've gotta keep the order in mind: the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. With this comes different events that take place. For example the introduction introduces you to the main character usually within the first few bits of the story, while rising action gives more of a building point of the final battle of the main character and villain or when the insane breakup happens between the main couple. You can’t just have a story where the villain dies at the introduction part with the rest of it being happy cupcakes and rainbows. These big events have to happen in certain cases or else you lose the flow of your story. With these there come some things that are important to most genres that usually give your story a run for its money.

     Each book is a part of some sort of genre rather than being in a big group. Either it being fantasy or horror each book is in a genre. Now each genre has stuff that is important that always sticks, for example Fantasy. Fantasy is always a period that is more medieval. Now in fantasy most of the time you will always have a dragon in some ways or another a dragon as its too popular not to leave out a fantasy story. By keeping more familiar features with your story you are bound to attract more readers.

With keeping familiar parts of genres, formatting, and characters and settings you are bound to have a decent story.