things you should and shouldn't do when writing stories

FridgeRaider · 2016-10-06T21:36:59

I have been writing little worlds on paper since i was 5 when i wrote my first mini-series, The Witch and the House of Stones, on my dad's old computer in the basement. Im 16 now and have found some does and some donts while writing stories. So here they are. Dont: -Things that you shouldn't do when wanting to create a story for your game. 1)The #1 thing that i cant stress enough to ppl is dont just sit down and try to think up a story in a day. The greatest stories ever written were molded in time and thats where the best results will come from. (To counter this please see Do: # 2) 2)Dont start making your game until you atleast have a rough-draft of your story, if you dont your story will be wasted by you trying to get the story done real fast in hopes that you can put your game out to the public soon. 3)Dont ask anyone to help you on creating yuor story unless your absolutly positive that the person your working with thinks just like you. If you let someone else make up your story for you it will only be half-ass. Think about it who in there right mind would help you create a story for a game when they could do the same thing for themselves. Also, letting someone else do it will remove the passion that you could've put in it thus ruining the story, again. Do: -Things that you should do when wanting to create a story for your game. 1)The first thing that you should do is think of what kind of story you want to write. You should make it a story that you will have fun making whether its a knight & dragon world, or a mafia type setting. 2)Next try to get some movies, games, or even books and try to go through them. This will usually sparks things in your mind and will give you some ideas on what you should do in your game. 3)Another thing that i highly suggest to ppl is use a spellcheck. I dont know how many home-made games ive seen where someone has misspelled words like how and accidently put hoe instead. It brings the overall image of the game way down and will thus run the story, yet again. This is all that i could think of in 10 mins so i will be posting mre do's and dont's latter on. Thank you for reading!!!

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Started by FridgeRaider November 26, 2004 12:13 PM

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