Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution?

Written by Nick Vernon


Creative Writing Tips –

For a theme to work andrepparttar story, which will revolve aroundrepparttar 128880 theme, it has to contain three things…

1.Character

2.Conflict

3.Resolution

What’srepparttar 128881 reason for this?

If your theme doesn’t contain these three essential elements, then you won’t be writing a proper short story. It might turn out to be an essay instead.

Because without…

1)Characters

You can’t achieve emotional depth. Readers become engrossed in stories because ofrepparttar 128882 characters in them. They either becomerepparttar 128883 character (sympathize), or read about an interesting person (empathize).

Emotional depth is achieved when readers use their imagination and senses and/or experiences to liverepparttar 128884 story throughrepparttar 128885 characters.

2)Conflict

Your story will be boring. Why? Without conflict, something to stir things up, nothing happens. And a story, in which nothing happens, is one not worth writing about.

Your characters don’t lead carefree lives. Well, not inrepparttar 128886 instance you are writing about them. In that part of their lives they are faced with a problem. They want something and can’t get it because ofrepparttar 128887 conflict, which is preventing them to do so.

Is Your Title Compelling?

Written by Nick Vernon


Your title is your selling tool. It’srepparttar first thing readers will scan and contemplate whether to read your story.

What your title’s job is, it has to lurerepparttar 128879 readers into your story – it has to be so compelling that they won’t even have a chance to ask themselves, ‘Will this story interest me?’

Their eyes will glide overrepparttar 128880 title and intorepparttar 128881 story before they realize it. The action will be instant.

What’s a compelling title? It’s one that instantly grabs our attention because it’s…

Intriguing Interesting Catchy Provocative Amusing

Your title may not be all these things but it will have to be at least one. There should be something about it that grabs your readers.

So how do you write compelling titles?

Start by learning fromrepparttar 128882 masters.

Learn from those whose articles and stories are published in newspapers, magazines and, in particular, pay close attention howrepparttar 128883 writers of Readers Digest go about it. They have been luring readers into their written material for years. They know their stuff.

Here are a few examples of titles taken from Readers Digest….

•Did I really need to know that?

•Who is Jack Kevorkian, Really?

•Againstrepparttar 128884 flames

•Who Killed Margaret Wilson?

Do you have any newspapers or magazines handy, or even better, a Readers Digest magazine? If you do, note down a few titles, then analyze why those particular titles grabbed you.

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