How to Write a Creative Writing Story

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Laura from young writers workshops dot com. And I'm going to talk about how to write a creative writing story. Hopefully all your writing is creative. I want to talk about writing a story in a way that will make it easy for you to approach it. The four elements you need to have in your story are setting, character, some sort of action and a conflict. If you have those four things, you set those four things up you can pretty much write just about anything. So start the action of the story where every you feel comfortable. Sometimes people say start right in the middle of the action. For example the bell rang and everyone jumped up. That would be starting at the beginning. You can really start wherever you feel comfortable. The next thing to remember is to bring the conflict in. In every story you have to have some characters who are facing some sort of challenge whether it's you know they are in conflict with each other or there's a conflict versus nature where they are in a storm. Whatever the conflict is, you need that to make it come alive, to make it have a point. It's not really a story if there isn't a conflict. Bring some description in, describe your setting, describe your characters. And use those, those descriptions to create a more personal picture of what's happening in this story. Resolve the conflict and when you feel like your conflict has been resolved you can end the story. You don't have to have a long conclusion, you really get to choose when you are writing a story it's up to you how to structure it and where it begins and where it ends. So just to sum up a few things to keep in mind when writing, a creative writing story are to include setting, characters, a plot and a conflict. To begin the action where ever you want and to end it when ever you want. Use description and use detail. And those are some things to remember when writing a creative writing story."