Writing A Story

 

Writing A Story

No matter what you write for TV, Film or Book writing needs to be let out on to the page.

Author Michael morpurgo on writing, he wrote War Horse. From a book to a film

https://youtu.be/QzAJ3oxYdy4?si=obYfyG2mKo6F7yxd

Life is sometimes not easy and throws you a Curveball. Sometimes and you have to go with it or not, that's the decision?

Writing nowadays is very similar and follows the same rules. But to be a writer you have to step out of your own box and have a good look around.

It may appear that some people have an easy life but we have different ways of thinking. Some people want to work a lot and make loads of money and do things that some of us wouldn't.

Some of us just want a life where we work to be comfortable, we pay our bills and are able to treat ourselves now and then.

We have to write from all different aspects of life: rich, poor, young, old. People that have disabilities and different sexual preferences.

Because in the end we are all still people!

Because this is who we are. As human beings we are curious about life, love and feelings.

But also our surroundings and what effects it has on us. 

Writing to some is difficult but it need not be. Write from experience and knowledge of your own circumstances. 

The trials and tribulations of everyday life put into words. The inner, most likely scenarios that life can take us down. The land of wonder, where everything along the path that is coming towards the character or characters to push the story forward. 

I would have to say I am a matter of fact writer. A writer that likes to write a beginning, a middle and an ending to the story. I think it's because I like to see how much a character has grown and gone through to where they end up at the end. 

I hate stories that leave the reader to imagine how the character ends up. Just tell us! Did they or didn't they? 

I think it goes back to my days as a young child reading Nancy Drew books and couldn't wait to find out who did it? It’s the mystery of who did it and why?

I think that is the question? Why? Why do we as humans do things? When we deep down know it might not work? Because of feelings. Hope, love, understanding.

To be a writer we have to write not just from the mind but the heart. The biggest mistake is someone misunderstanding good intentions. To assume what someone is before understanding their journey. 

How luck or tragedy Could change a person's life for good or bad. 

It's all in the details how one thing could lead to the next.  Let the story flow, it doesn't  matter how you write it or in what order? As Michael says the first draft just write don't  worry about mistakes, just get it on paper or on your computer.

Great writers like Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens etc didn't write from a certain act or structure, they just put pen to paper and wrote their story.

Happy writing!

Sara