Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35501632-20180505213611/@comment-7064562-20180709044859

Sweethell wrote: DrBobSmith do have any suggestions on how I could improve ... I amit I’m a horrible writer and don’t really know how to write a good story

That's something that can easily be fixed with practice. The best thing to do is to simply open your mind and ask yourself why. Take it a step at a time. A story needs structure and reasoning. You can't just have a girl get called ugly and have her go psycho. You need a deeper meaning in the characters and their actions. Substance. The more you write, and the older you get, the more clearly you will see this.

I always find grammar to be the 2nd issue to a story. At the end of the day, a story isn't' going to be called bad for using the wrong "Than's". Sure, it's not going to get published in penguin, but it doesn't mean the story is bad. First work on storyboarding, planning, and plotting things out. There are ton of stories out there that are good simply because they do this. Even with cliche ideas or easy to find out plots.

Things like, "Blood song, a ravens shadow," "Island 731", "The killing order", all fit into this. Not really the best stories out there, but thanks to an easy to explain tale, decent characters with development, and a sound story structure building itself and the world, they all sold pretty well.

So, work on a story going from point A, to point B, instead of trying to jump to point Y. I've said this around 3 times today, but I think it's the best advice to give to new writers, as everyone always starts making stories were the MC or Plotline just have a huge random jump in instnse, undeveloped action for no actual reason.