Now I can’t tell you how to write your story or what topics you need to cover, but I can give you the conventional methods and rules of writing. Storytelling in itself is a vast art form, with many different styles.
Plot
The first thing you will need is your story. A plot is a sequence of events that will form the all important “why?” a certain events happened. For instance: Someone planted a bomb on a bus and it was diffused by bomb squad. This story has no plot.
To add plot we will need to ask “why was this bomb planted on the bus?” If the answer is “ransom,” it works, but this is pretty boring. Let’s add revenge and say that he is getting back at a cop. Now we are talking, but why is he getting revenge at a cop? For foiling his first attempt at ransom money. Now we have the plot for the movie Speed. Now you just fill in what happened.
So how do you get your plot? Often times you can start with a simple sentence that includes the end result and then work your way backward by answering the question “why?” That way only you know the ending and the audience is trying to figure out what will happen.
Point of View
There are many ways to tell a story. Think about anytime you’ve heard both sides of an argument, each person has their own point of view of how things happened. Even the person listening would give a separate account of the incident.
So how would you tell a particular story? Would you narrate the scene or tell it from one character’s point of view? Should the audience know what the other characters are doing? As the writer, you need to decide what to show the audience at any given moment to move the story forward.
In Forrest Gump, the story is narrated by the main character and for the most part we only see his point of view throughout the entire movie. This is an unusual case and more often it might become boring to follow one single character for 90 minutes straight, so to make the story more interesting you will probably want to add different character’s point of view.
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