Week 6: Story Laboratory

This week for my story laboratory I chose to look at the Writer's Write blog for different ideas of what to do to make writing better.

Here's my notes of what I found:

One of the articles I looked at was the puff or fluff article. The reason I chose it is because sometimes, when writing pieces with a word count, it's easy to try and add fluff into the story to make it longer and meet the goals. However, the article actually didn't say yes cut fluff, it said use it wisely. I liked that it was still an option on the table, you just have to use it when the mood is right.

The next article was about setting the mood for a story, which I think is very important when writing short stories. You don't have a lot of time so you have to try and set the mood quickly but effectively. It included a list of 140 words to describe the mood in fiction. I think that if I pick one of the words before writing a story and then work to set the tone based on that word, I will be able to effectively set the tone for my short stories.

Another article I read and liked was about a plot. In my opinion, you can't have a good story without a good plot. I just don't get hooked and interested without it. So I think it's always a great idea to consider the overall plot of your story. It talked about how characters need to have a worthy story goal and how it's important to know all the parts of your plot (Inciting Incident, Climax, Rising Action, etc.) so I think for future stories I'm going to give that a little more thought.

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