P6 Composition tip:
Besides focusing on your conflict and resolution, there are two important aspects that many students ignore.
1) Motive
What is the motive of the antagonist?
It doesn’t make sense for the kidnapper to kidnap a random child. He could have a feud with the child’s parent or the child’s parent is really rich.
Similarly, for the topic competition, if you are writing about a protagonist who insists on going for it even though he’s sick, you have to consider:
why is the competition so important to him? Was it to fulfill a dream? Or a promise?
2) Consequence
Imagine this scenario for the movie Avengers: Thanos found his stones and happily played five stones. No one would pay to watch this story.
Ask yourself this as a litmus test: if my story is made into a movie, would anyone pay to watch it?
If the topic is “important task”, ask yourself this: what would happen if the task isn’t fulfilled?
If it’s about confronting the bully, what is the bully doing to you? A student wrote that the bully would tickle him. That won’t be much of a bully. ?
Try writing a story now using these tips and see if it’s better. #friwritingtips from Study Room https://ift.tt/2S56ccp