Hi, this is Laura Turner, and today we're going to talk about how to write a human interest story. Ideally all stories are going to be human interest stories, because all stories are going to have some interest to the people who are reading them, which are going to be human. But, if you really want to write something that is a "human interest story", you're going to need to follow just a couple good pieces of advice that I have for you. First, make sure that your hero, or that the person that you're writing about if it's non-fiction, is a universal kind of hero, someone that everyone can see a little bit of themselves in, or who would like to see a little bit of themselves in. So pick the universal hero who stands in for everyone, but is also this specific upstanding person that he or she is. Next, pick your antagonist, make sure your antagonist is a universal antagonist. If the antagonist is, if you're writing a feature story about Mother Theresa battling poverty, poverty is the antagonist. You don't have to actually say the president of this country is the antagonist to this human interest hero, you can actually make it bigger than that, you can make it society, you can make it global factors and stuff that you need to use. And finally think about what your political message in your theme will be because if you're writing a human interest story it's going to be a story that's going to probably insight people to either rise up against something that's happening to the human race that is wrong, or to just acknowledge that this kind of stuff is going on and that there should be something done about it. So those are just a few tips for writing a human interest story.
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