Saturday, February 01, 2020

Tips on creative writing

There different potential starting-points or strategies in storytelling. Stories have four basic elements: plot, setting, characters, and dialogue (movies add a sound track or music). It's possible for a creative writer to have a story that's driven by one of these compositional elements, and the other elements grow out of that. 

For instance, C. S. Lewis's stories apparently originate in mental images. You might say he begins with the setting, then works the other elements of the story into that framework. 

It may be that some authors suffer from writer's block because they forget the elements of storytelling. It's a blur. If they were to take it apart in terms of plot, setting, characters, and dialogue, that might give them an angle for how to get into a new story. 

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