Creative writing fiction

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Creative Writing Fiction
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• Some argue that every story has already been
  told. Indeed, finding truly novel facets of
  experience to explore is challenging. What can
  you do? Tell old stories differently.
  Shakespeare did. For Romeo and Juliet, he
  revamped an Italian precursor.
• Lets look at options.
• POV
• Point of view is narrative perspective. In
  first-person stories, narrators are characters
  who recount events using I. In second,
  narrators address the audience directly (using
  you). In third, narrators are outsiders,
  telling the stories from the perspective of one
  or many characters (using he/she/they).

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• Which is best?
• First facilitates connection with readers,
  offering a 360 view of a single character and
  his/her world. You can use first to play with
  narrative reliability. Narrators tell stories
  through a multifaceted filter formed by age,
  biases, emotions, experience, and mental health
  status, among others. They can even lie.
• Second is definitely novel, pulling readers
  completely into the story. However, maintaining
  this perspective is difficult. Alternately, you
  can use first or third and occasionally break the
  fourth wall to address readers.

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• Third allows writers to offer more complete,
  truthful stories. However, you need to move
  from one characters head into anothers
  sparingly and offer a transition to tip readers
  off. You can use breaks in the text (asterisks or
  new chapters), or you can have characters whose
  heads youre about to visit look at something to
  indicate youll highlight their perspective.
  Using italics and regular type can help you
  present two perspectives of one event without
  describing it twice.
• Verb Tense
• Past Readers dont even blink at stories in this
  tense, which might matter if the story is far
  removed from the present, if the story COULD NOT
  happen now.
• Present The present offers novelty, giving the
  story a sense of immediacy (this is happening
  right now) and even universality (this happens to
  people).

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• Showing vs. Telling
• Visual media focus on showing. Viewers see the
  setting, characters appearance, and actions and
  hear conversations. But theyre rarely privy to
  characters thoughts and feelings. Screenwriters
  try but mostly fail to bridge this gap through
  journal entries and/or voiceovers. This gives
  writers an edge. Only through the written word
  can creators fully explore a persons psyche.
  Shoot for a 50-50 mix.
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• More tips
• 1. Less is more. When describing, use a few
  interesting details and dont always rely on
  sight. Use texture, taste, smell, and/or hearing.
• 2. Play with synesthesia (sense mixing). Use a
  sound to describe a feeling. Maybe a characters
  shiver feels like the ring of a phone.

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• 3. Share information in different ways. Use not
  only dialogue and straight description but also
  dreams, fantasies, flashbacks/flash forwards,
  journal entries, etc.
• 4. Incorporate new media. Readers likely use
  Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, and texting,
  among others. Including Face book status and/or
  updates, tweets, descriptions of YouTube videos,
  and text or instant messenger conversations is
  refreshing and helps readers connect.
• 5. Pick descriptive verbs. Instead of walk, use
  trudge, strut, stride, float, slink, stroll,
  shuffle, skulk, march, stagger, or lumber.
• Happy experimenting!

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