Week 4

Last week, we read and learned about fiction. You have to have certain elements in order for it to be considered a short story. For one, you must use detail, obviously, to get exactly what you are trying to convey and do it as best as you can. Without detail, you pretty much have a blah blah story, for example, "He stood and waited. Then they arrived." I'm pretty sure you could mention a lot more to that to create a more visual aspect into the scene of the story.

You must also have a plot, or a story line, a reason for writing the story. You must have a setting, dialogue, beginning, that includes characters, a climax, and a resolution. Without these very important aspects to a short story, there wouldn't be much to read. The characters could either have issues or a problem to solve, either way they must be included. Usually, there should be a voice behind the story, where you can hear the narrator actually speaking the story aloud. A rhythm should go along with the voice and the story to make it flow even more.

As I read through both fiction packets, I could recognize each individual characteristic that was added into the short stories. It was amazing how much you had to add into a story, in order to actually make it a story. It took less explanation to go into the story because they must have wanted it to be short than it would take a novel. There was more detail jammed packed into the stories, to give you more of an idea of what was going on and to actually get you to picture exactly what the narrator was picturing and what they wanted you to picture when they were writing the stories. Each were different in character and all had a different story line.