How to be a Good Story Writer
By Raja Sharma
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Though I have taught Literature for more than two decades, I had never given importance to the fact how much others can benefit from my experience. It happened one day that I met Mr. Walter Jones, a poet from US, online and requested him to read some of my works. He obliged me and since that day there has been no pause.
A huge majority of the writers are often trapped by an illusion that structure is their ultimate goal while writing a story. Structure is a kind of God to them. Undoubtedly, structure is an inevitably important part of your story but it might as well destroy story if excessive attention is paid to it.
Aspiring writers and students should read this book very slowly and carefully. I am sure that it is going to prove a goldmine to them, a definite way to their success as a story writer.
Raja Sharma
Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.
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How to be a Good Story Writer - Raja Sharma
How to be a Good Story Writer
By Raja Sharma
Copyright@2011Raja Sharma
Smashwords Edition
Chapter 1: Introduction
Values are given words and words are shared with the readers who try to get nearer to the values conveyed by the writer. Though I have taught Literature for more than two decades, I had never given importance to the fact how much others can benefit from my experience. It happened one day that I met Mr. Walter Jones, a poet from US, online and requested him to read some of my works. He obliged me and since that day there has been no pause.
A huge majority of the writers are often trapped by an illusion that structure is their ultimate goal while writing a story. Structure is a kind of God to them. Undoubtedly, structure is an inevitably important part of your story but it might as well destroy story if excessive attention is paid to it.
Aspiring writers and students should read this book very slowly and carefully. I am sure that it is going to prove a goldmine to them, a definite way to their success as a story writer.
Raja Sharma M.Sc. (Physics), M.Tech. (Metallurgy), M.A.(English)
Chapter 2: Where to Start
There is no dearth of hit movies and novels in the markets flooded with new releases. They seem to be fulfilling all the requirements of story but I feel that they seem to be contrived, uninspired and lifeless and one can feel that the writer has moved with a plan.
These kinds of writers are merely mechanics who assemble the different parts. Some linguists call them Story Mechanics. They plan the structure, syntax, length and so on and according to the prescriptive requirements contrive a story. It looks like a fancy paint job. Many of the Great Masters like D.H.Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Stevenson, Dickens, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps never heard about the blueprints, plan, sentence arrangement because they were guided by the values they had