Constructing a Good Story

Creating a good story starts with the planning, when starting to brainstorm to write a story there are many things you have to think about and little details you need to include to make your story a good one. When writing a story there is a lot of details that can set a good story apart from a bad one.

Stories have been being told since the beginning of time in many different ways, from campfire stories to a novel to drawings on a cave wall, they are all stories that have been told to people to provide knowledge, entertainment, or life skills. Stories are the original way to pass knowledge around and if we didn’t have stories we wouldn’t have the knowledge about the past that we do today. The structure is the biggest part of making a good story, if you don’t have memorable characters, a clear theme, story structure, a memorable ending and something that evokes emotions. This formula for a story can put you on the track to writing a good memorable story that people will enjoy and recommend to their friends.

Whenever I am reading a story these five main points are what makes me think that the story is good. When a writer is able to make the story relatable and full of emotion it has the ability to pull a reader in and get them to keep reading. When a novel is emotionless or gives no details into the story you can’t visualize the world you are reading about, imagine reading Harry Potter without knowing Harrys home life or knowing what Hogwarts is and trying to read through the series without the details that makes Harry Potter the magic world that it is known to be. People wouldn’t have made it through the first book much less the series if they didn’t have detail or evoked emotion.