StorytimeWednesday

  You’ve always wanted to write a book but don’t know how to start. Well, it’s quite simple to start a book, it’s another thing to come up with a concept that hasn’t been heard of before.   You’ve got 7 different concepts to consider when writing a book. Will your book be one of the following plots: Rags to Riches story – your character manages to fulfill his potential because he dreamed big and got there. Think Maid in Manhatten A quest or journey? – Your hero goes on a journey to find him or herself or even a lost item and must overcome obstacles along the way. Think Indiana Jones Overcoming a monster - that is destroying the landscape or city? Your character must venture into the monster’s hidden lair which is both frightening and dangerous, but he does it to regain what is stolen by the monster and the city needs to want it back. Again, think of Indiana Jones movies. Comedy - Think of Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. The dialogue in a comedy must be funny with...

  7 common story plotlines in any story   Every book no matter the genre uses one or two of the 7 common story plotlines wrapped up in their writing. No matter a long or short story, the basic pattern of story plotlines can be found in any story written since the conception of novel writing. In order for you to understand the 7 story plotlines in any story, you must first understand how a book is designed so that the story is told in the right format. Here is how a good story is constructed with the main points as follows: every story has 4 acts, the setting up the story with the problem that needs to be solved which is   (1) Unpleasant Incident or the issue that caused the situation or dilemma for the main character,    then you have the first arc or (2) Plot Point 1 or Arc 1, This arc takes the reader from one state at the beginning to a changed state, then you have Act 2 which is the   beginning of recovery from the problem, now we enter the fir...