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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Dialogue Prompt #7

“I’ll admit it, sometimes I’m a little irrational, but I’m going to have to ask you to trust me when I say that plastic baby has to go in that oven.”

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Dialogue Prompt #9

"Uh huh, and who are you?"

"You killed my father-"

"Dude, do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Setting Your Story, The Basics.

Setting your story is an important part of any piece of writing. Establishing your stories world settings and "rules" is a crucial element to beginning your writing. Often, writers pay lots of attention to their stories characters, arcs, dilemmas, etc. but many forget how important properly setting your story is.

Writing the first draft doesn't usually require you to figure out your story worlds settings, so writing the first draft without any of your settings figured out yet is completely fine. You just need to understand that before you start your good copy, as well as your plot and characters' backstories, the setting must always be established beforehand.

Why is it important to establish a proper or basic world setting before continuing my writing?

Well, think of it this way, can your characters backstory, arcs, traits, etc. be affected or influenced by your story world's setting? The answer is yes. Can your stories world be affected by its societies settings and rules? Again, the answer is yes. Your story worlds settings can and will always affect your story's plot, characters, society, etc. So understanding how to properly establish a setting before continuing to write is extremely important.

What are the basic elements to establishing a setting?

Location: where is your story set? is it in a country where the cultures are vastly different from your own? is it in outer space? is it in another universe? is it in a little cabin in the forest? Before anything, you must establish a (or multiple) set places where your story will begin/end. The location of your setting can be a familiar place for your characters, it could be a completely different world than what your characters have experienced. When doing this, you must always remember, do your research!! I cannot stress this enough, if you're setting your stories location in a completely different country that you've never been to, you're going to need to do research, you must at least understand the basic concepts of the culture you're setting your story in. For example, if you are setting the location in Japan, you should at least understand the basics of how one wouldl acceptably act in public in Japan.

Population: this element is one of the more important ones to consider when coming up with your story setting. The population of the location your characters reside in or where many of your scenes take place need to be considered when you're writing certain parts of your story. For example, a densely populated area in your story might lead to a group of your characters continuously bumping into other people on the sidewalk (somewhere like NYC) or a much smaller, calmer town that may make one your characters feel lonely. Both the population and location of your stories setting are extremely important as they are outside factors that can influence the plot/character/arc easily.

Year: setting your stories timeline is extremely important! if the story is set in the 1800s but your characters use slang from the 20th century (when they've never been to that century), then your story won't make sense. You need to establish what year(s) your story will be happening in, if the plot is set in the future (i.e; 2045) then you have complete creative control in making up how people/society in that era would act. But if your story is set in the 20th century, then you'll need to at least follow the basic concepts of that era (slang, clothing, society, stereotypes, etc.)

Time skips/Elapsed time: showing/describing how your stories timeline has progressed and how much time has passed is extremely important. When the reader can follow along with the plot and still understand how many mins, days, hours, months, etc. have passed in your storyline then you can be considered successful. When a reader can't understand, for example, that months have passed since two characters last spoke and you're writing the scene with the description that the two characters have missed each other dearly, then the reader is going to be confused. You need to establish the passing of time in a storyline, whether it be through simply writing '6 years later' or by describing how long its been through character dialogue, you must make sure the reader can follow along.

Atmosphere and Climate: your characters and scene can be influenced by their surroundings as well. Weather/temperature, lighting, geography, climate, all these outside factors can have an effect on what actions your characters may take (i.e; rainy weather makes your character run through the rain to get home). You need to make sure the world around your character makes sense and affects the stories setting in a reasonable manner.

Man-made surroundings: our world is both influenced by natural and man-made geography. Things like streetlamps, damns, sidewalks, well-kept bushes, etc. are all different examples of small things that show proof of humankind along with the world's natural geography. When setting your stories world, especially if it's a completely new world you've built that's not similar to our Earth, you need to make sure you show proof of existence in your stories world geography. By doing this you're showing proof of a species' existence and its influences on the world around it.

History/Eras: things like important events throughout history and how different eras influenced the future is very important in your stories setting. This doesn't necessarily have to include our histories events, they can even be made up events and wars that took place in the history of your stories world. This element is not the MOST important when you're creating a story setting but it definitely one that should be considered and properly constructed if used.

Social/Cultural environment: this is the last but one of the most important elements to consider in a story setting. Your settings social and cultural environment will and can greatly affect your plot, this is because the social environment of a story influences character values, social roles, sensibilities, stereotypes, etc. and these concepts may have different impacts on both the plot and how different characters may act. For example, if there was a harmful stereotype that affected your character's values and beliefs in your setting how could this influence your character throughout their life? Would they educate themself on these negative beliefs? Would they harm others because of these values?

These elements are only the main basic concepts that should be considered when you're worldbuilding/coming up with a story setting. There are many other elements that can influence your storyline and writing out there.

Asks/submissions are open!

-parkhyun

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Dialogue Prompt #5

“Hey, would you come to my funeral?”

“I’m gonna be the CAUSE of your funeral if you don’t shut the fuck up and go back to bed.”

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Dialogue Prompt #1

"Fuck. There goes our escape plan."

"THAT was the escape plan?!"

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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You and your old high-school friend group meet up on the last day of the month every month to rant, air out your mistakes and catch up. During your most recent meet-up, one of your friends jokingly suggested robbing a well-known but greedy CEO. Now, sitting in your boring university lecture, you're thinking that might seem a little fun.

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Narrative Structures; How They Work and How To Use Them.

A narrative (story) structure is another one of the basic steps in planning out a story. Once you've figured out how to properly construct your settings, you'll need to understand and pick out what type of narrative structure you want to use for your story.

What classifies as a narrative structure?

A narrative structure talks about the different frameworks that are used to properly plan out the "timeline" for a story. Take a look at this for example,

This is a basic story structure. It showcases a stories beginning, middle and end along with the different arcs/scenes that would take place at each point in the story.

What are the different types of story narratives I can use?

The 7-point story structure:

This type of narrative structure is a slightly less detailed version of the Hero's Journey narrative structure (which I will be explaining later on). This structure is interesting in the way that it makes the writer begin their planning at the end/middle of the story, and it focuses more on the many highs and lows of a 'narrative arc'.

Here's how it goes:

1. The Hook -> the hook allows you to draw in the reader by explaining your protagonist/character's current situation (whether good or very bad). Your characters state of existence at this point (the beginning of the story) should be able to contrast how they are at the ending of the story.

2. Plot Point #1 -> this part of the story is when your character gets a "call to adventure". It can be any sort of event, idea, incident, or even a person that helps the story 'start' (aka be set in motion).

3. Pinch Point #1 -> a downfall, this part of the story will be when something goes wrong (whether a mild event or drastic issue occurs), your character will be pressured here to step up and solve a problem.

4. The Midpoint -> a turning point in the story, your protagonist/character may decide to take the stories main issue head-on and finally face it properly.

5. Pinch Point #2 -> this second pinch point is meant to be worse than the last for your character, things go even more wrong during this point in the story and your character may be faced with many different issues (i.e; a betrayal, someone gets hurt, etc.)

6. Plot Point #2 -> at this point in the story your character is meant to realize that this entire time, they've had the solution to all their problems or the stories main conflict.

7. Resolution -> our last part of the story structure, this is where the stories main point of conflict is finally resolved and dealt with, your character(s) will go through their final point of character development that contrasts who they were during the beginning of the story.

I will be writing a part two to this post that will outline the rest of the different narrative structures you may use and how to effectively go about applying them. (I made it two parts because it's a lot of writing to get through, sorry!)

asks/submissions are open!

-parkhyun

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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If this pretty stranger doesn't stop flirting with you every day at 5am on the dot you may have to give them your number, really just anything to shut them up. It's 5am and you're very exhausted.

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Dialogue Prompt #12

"Wow, haha, it's been such a wild year!"

"Dude it's March."

"Fuck-"

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Dialogue Prompt #6

“Hey I didn’t know knitting was your hobby!”

“It’s not. Knitting is a post-apocalyptic skill.”

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Dialogue Prompt #8

“Okay I don’t have time for this, I have to go overthrow the government.”

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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"Get away from me at once or so help me god I will end you and your bloodline right here and now."

"Woah dude! Calm down I just wanted some milk from the fridge-"

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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Dialogue Prompt #10

"Where the hell are you idiots?!"

"Person A is on fire! I'm trying to fix this!!"

"Why are they on fire again???"

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Dialogue Prompt #4

"Hey yelling at your intended target is NOT a seduction technique stop that-"

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parkhyunwriter · 3 years

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"If we both just stick to the story, they can't prove anything."

"They caught you burning the body I'm pretty sure we're fucked."

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Dialogue Prompt #11

"No, person A, a generic vibe does not count as a career plan."

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