Fiction Writing

The trick to writing good openings is to finishthe story - then, go back and craft a good opening based on what you've written at the end! Some writers have even said that you cannot write the beginning until you have reached the end.

Stories are as old as civilization. The earliest recorded stories we have are oral poems (like the Oral Histories of many peoples), epic poems (like the Epic of Gilgamesh and Iliad), and theological narratives (like the Bible). The development of the novel is much more recent, starting with the Tale of Genji in Japan around 800 years ago. The modern novel was finally perfected in the 1700s.

Tabloids often have names like "Examiner," "Enquirer," or other such "reporting" names - even though they're not reporting, they're digging for gossip!

Try using the name of your fictional city following by a word that reminds you of a tabloid!

Scary nightmares must have a fear factor for the sleeping character. The nightmare story does not have to be frightening in the sense of horror to the reader but rather something that would be horrifying to the character. For instance a mother dreams her child drowns and she cannot reach the water to save her child. I had a nightmare that my husband was going to leave me forever. I was so upset I woke him up and asked him if that was true. The dream must be very real to the sleeping character. Imagine being electrocuted and you wake up in a foreign country where no one can understand your demise. So let your brain wander and come up with really horrible scenarios for your sleeper. Let your plot help you along. Is there something bothering your character in the story? Let the nightmare elevate that problem to a fearful level.

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First of all, it is important to remember that Sinclair meant for his work to be a socialist tract that would convert the reader to being a socialist. He sought to do this by exposing the evils of capitalism. By showing the breakdown of a family, he felt that he could show the evils of capitalism, and then introduce the "saving doctrine" of Socialism. By choosing a fictional family, he could make anything and everything go wrong for them. In reality, one must admit that the likelihood that every one of the obstacles that the Rudkus family faced was faced by one true family is very slim. Sinclair could make them as victimized as he wanted if he was not relaying the tale of one family. Also: it should be noted that hundreds of tracts about how good socialism was had already been published. By making it fiction, it was easier reading, he could attract a larger audience, and portray the stark differences between capitalism and socialism that any average Joe could see.

1. An older figure with outworn value

2. A virgin woman

3. Taking away her youth & energy

4. The transer of youth and energy into the older figure

5. Death of the virgin woman

When you write a story about a topic you know your story is believable, authentic and authoritative. I use a lot of health and medical things in my stories because I know about them. I do not use topics I don't know about because I would look like a fool when I wrote down incorrect things. When you do a thorough research and get help from experts you can use topics you have little knowledge about. The experts can read your story and correct you in areas you blundered over. It is just easier to stick to things you know so the reader can understand everything in the story.

Here is a clarification on this matter. When you write a plot it does not need to be "about" your specialty point of knowledge. In one of my novels I have one of the characters be a doctor who must help an injured person but the plot is about World War 2 evaders and their return to Pearl Harbor after crashing in Japanese occupied China. (Please don't steal my plot.)

Therefore your knowledge can be about many subjects but not be the main part of the plot but rather a supporting feature of your story. A romantic story can have so many sources of knowledge. For example, if you know about horses and ranches you could write the love story around that but not be about that.

Fiction refers to stories or narratives that are not based in real events, often created by the author's imagination. Nonfiction, on the other hand, refers to writing that presents factual information and is based on real events or experiences.

You can have any character you want! You can create heroes and heroines, villains, sidekicks, stock characters or background characters, flat or round characters -- whatever you feel like writing.

It depends on what sort of story you're writing. It maybe be helpful to but a dream sequence in italics, just as you might place a character's thoughts in italics. If you're able to convey clearly that what you are writing is a dream, italics are not needed, but again, italics may be a helpful choice for the reader if you go directly into the dream sequence.

Dialogue just means talking and communicating. A dialogue has people speaking with each other.

The theme is the constant thread that binds a work of fiction together.

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Authors use dialogue as a tool for characterization because it allows readers to see how characters interact with each other, revealing their personalities, emotions, and relationships. Dialogue can provide insight into a character's background, motivations, and beliefs through their speech patterns, tone, and choice of words. It helps to bring characters to life and make them more relatable and engaging for readers.