HOW TO WRITE BETTER FAIRY TALES - DEAN AMORY

What makes a good short story and narrative?
- You should sort out your ideas using brainstorm!.. then give good points in each!
- It should be an interesting topic that catch people attention!
- It should have a good character that we can relate to them!
- Make believable characters. Make them have a personality, way of speaking, age, b-day,
etc... The best way to do that is to make character profiles. And make them speak as how
the way they speak. So the dialogue isn't weak.
- Make your first sentence grabbing. The first sentence is always very important because
you catch your audience with that.
- DO NOT USE PASSIVE VOICE. Use Active Voice.
- Get right to the action and don't stop for descriptions. You'll know the right time to
describe.
- Description is important to make a vivid scene, but instead of describing a forest with
every tree. Just say: The forest where the smiling sun always shined above. You can
imagine that. Right?
- Always follow the structure of a narrative: Orientation, Complication, Resolution &
Conclusion. (Or: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution,
Conclusion)
- It is good to have more then one complication so it keeps the reader engaged.
- Also remember to use language techniques, such as: poetic devices (Alliteration, Rhyme.
(Both infrequently) Irony, hyperboles, similies, mood, and metaphors,
rhetorical questions, the Three 'R's, etc.. This will also keep the readers engaged.
- If you end the story, make the reader something that he/she would think about all day !
1. just have a sorta outline about what you're gonna write,even a basic idea will do.
2. Then,description: vivid description of setting,scene/whatever.
3. characters must not be too many as readers could get confused and irritated.
4. of course build the story,use appropriate language.If you're writing a short story,give vivid
accounts of feelings undergone by characters.if narrative,identify your emotions and
present them.
5. as you build story,have 2-3 dialogues,just at few places,to make it interesting.
6. Dont use lot of references to what happened in your area while making
generalisations.Say for ex,my skl has 4 teams 'anbu','aram,'arivu' and 'arul'.If im talking
abt sports,i cant keep referring to the teams i know,if i say,"Match had so few
viewers,wonder if ppl had thought anbu was playing,blah blah.."it'ld make no sense.
7. build momentum gradually and have a nice climax.
8. successful short story writers like O.Henry have the twist at the end,a punch line to sign
off,its called the "O.Henry twist".