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Guidelines to Writing Your Own Fiction:

A. Start from Scratch - It is important for you to conceptualize your story as a whole andremember the important events, people, information that you are supposed to put in. Thiswill serve as an outline that can help you get through dead ends in some part of your story.

a. Decide on your main elements – follow the elements of the story, but do this in theorder accordingly:

i. Conflict – decide what kind of conflict will happen to your main character,turning the ordinary to extraordinary.

ii. Time and Locality (Setting) – the place and time where the story happens isvery important, especially because your characters will depend on thetraditions, culture of your selected place. Also, the time period indicates themodernization and your character’s current civilization.

iii. Characters – once the above are noted, you can now analyze and form yourcharacters. It is important to emphasize on your characters physical andmental characteristics. The way they react to certain situations can show theirindividuality and personality. There are three main characters in a story(others are considered as supporting):

a. Protagonist – the lead, the main character, the hero, and the center of the story. The conflict usually affects the protagonist most.

b. Antagonist – the rival, enemy or main foe of the protagonist. The usualcause of the conflict.

c. Deuterogamist – supports or helps the protagonist, but in a generalway possible that he cannot be deleted from the story.

iv. Solution to the conflict – of course, a problem needs to be resolved. The maincharacter should always be included in the solution.

b. Your story is right when you write it right – plan out the way your going to narrate

the story, how you are going to start it, etc.

i. Number of POVsa. one POV – meaning that only one person’s experience is narrated. b. many POVs – meaning that experiences of different characters are

narrated. They are usually separated from each other, showing onesituation but in different people’s views.

ii. Way of Narrationa. First person – the character is telling the story directly to you(e.g. I

entered the room with precaution.) b. Third person – the story is narrated in such a way that you become a

viewer of a story. (She entered the room with precaution).

c. Choose to fly with your story – imagining that you are one of your characters or youin the story will help you feel the emotions in your story.

d. Go on a ride along – face every adventure and try to make the story exciting andinteresting. Once you start writing a point of your climax, you can’t actually stop, sokeep going unless someone is already stopping you.

e. Review – like an exam, you want to make sure that everything is right, so reviewingyour story a few times over every five paragraphs will do the trick.

f. Poll-taking and Opinion search – there’s no use of making a story and not lettinganybody see or read it. Try it out on some of your friends and get some goodfeedbacks.

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Tips, Solutions and Rules about story-writing:

TIP # 1: Spread the wings of your imagination. Swirl your brain and search for an originalconflict that makes your story stand out.

TIP # 2 : Rack your stock knowledge. Try to place your story in a location you know most of.Your favorite country, the place you spend most time in, your hometown, and this alsoapplicable to your time setting because you may need a lot of research if you don’t knowmuch about the place and time period that you selected.TIP # 3 : Create dynamic and opposing characters. They show a unique balance of a storyand they indicate variety of character. Also, try to be more creative with creating names.Think of names that you’ve almost never heard before.TIP # 4 : Make sure that ALL (emphasizing all) the conflicts are resolved. All openedwounds should be closed.TIP # 5 : Regarding # 4, if you are to include a certain mystery, try to set aside the solutionand put it in the near end.TIP # 6 : Avoid Mary Sue’s and Larry Stu’s. These are perfect characters that don’t get hurt,embarrassed and they always get what they want, good grades, the people they like, etc.They can become mood-killers in a story.TIP # 7 : Ask your relatives, classmates, friends, siblings about some conflicts in the storyand how they would react towards it. This helps your story come to life.TIP # 8 : Express you emotion through your story. Let your anger, fear, anxiety, enthusiasm,and excitement make it to your story. This will not only help your story become better, butyou can also help yourself.