Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 7:07:17 GMT
What is a story? We can give many meanings to this term. I often say that a story is something worth telling . And that an audience would willingly listen to. Perhaps this definition alone is enough to guide us in writing a good story, a story that works and interests readers. What does “history” mean? From Ottorino Pianigiani's Etymological Vocabulary of the Italian Language we read, under the heading "history": Widespread narration of facts, events, worthy things so that the memory of them is passed down to posterity. This does not mean that one of our novels will be a good story only if it is passed down to posterity and will remain in people's memories for centuries to come.
But we can certainly take this definition as a starting point for writing a good story. A fact is not necessarily a story In Salvatore's article, " Writing facts ", I wrote in the comments that a fact is not enough to have a story , but it must be a tellable fact. A fact that can have an audience of readers. Our day is full of facts, but how many of these are interesting Special Data enough to be turned into a story? None of mine, I guarantee it. I have to find my stories elsewhere, in my fantasies, in my daydreams, in the worlds that my daily readings have opened up to me. The 5 steps to create a story according to Will Eisner When I talked about the narration of Will Eisner , an American cartoonist who passed away in 2005, I highlighted the 5 passages in which Eisner condenses a story : Introduction or setting : in which we introduce the reader into our story, we introduce the protagonist and the main characters. Problem : this is a crucial point, fundamental even, because there is no story without a problem to face .
There must be an obstacle, an enemy, an unexpected or unpredictable event that kicks off the actual story. Address the problem : when we have a problem, we have to solve it, we can't give a damn. It's not a given that it will work out right the first time, it would be too easy and the story would end too soon. Solution : whether it is positive or negative does not matter, but a solution must come. It's up to us whether to establish a happy ending for that story or not. End : the conclusion of the story, in which the conclusions are drawn and the characters exit the scene. According to the cartoonist, these 5 steps are a guide to keeping the story under control and never going off the rails. If you see carefully, these 5 points also represent an imaginary arc, a curve that rises up to the problem and reaches a sort of dead point when faced with it, and then descends towards the solution and the end.
But we can certainly take this definition as a starting point for writing a good story. A fact is not necessarily a story In Salvatore's article, " Writing facts ", I wrote in the comments that a fact is not enough to have a story , but it must be a tellable fact. A fact that can have an audience of readers. Our day is full of facts, but how many of these are interesting Special Data enough to be turned into a story? None of mine, I guarantee it. I have to find my stories elsewhere, in my fantasies, in my daydreams, in the worlds that my daily readings have opened up to me. The 5 steps to create a story according to Will Eisner When I talked about the narration of Will Eisner , an American cartoonist who passed away in 2005, I highlighted the 5 passages in which Eisner condenses a story : Introduction or setting : in which we introduce the reader into our story, we introduce the protagonist and the main characters. Problem : this is a crucial point, fundamental even, because there is no story without a problem to face .
There must be an obstacle, an enemy, an unexpected or unpredictable event that kicks off the actual story. Address the problem : when we have a problem, we have to solve it, we can't give a damn. It's not a given that it will work out right the first time, it would be too easy and the story would end too soon. Solution : whether it is positive or negative does not matter, but a solution must come. It's up to us whether to establish a happy ending for that story or not. End : the conclusion of the story, in which the conclusions are drawn and the characters exit the scene. According to the cartoonist, these 5 steps are a guide to keeping the story under control and never going off the rails. If you see carefully, these 5 points also represent an imaginary arc, a curve that rises up to the problem and reaches a sort of dead point when faced with it, and then descends towards the solution and the end.