Can anyone give me ideas? Story writing?

Question

Can anyone give me ideas?

Im suppose to write a story about 2 letter put in the wrong envelopes were sent to the wrong people.

Answer 1

Good thing i saw this,it's all about possibility my friend.....I'll give you an example. A break up letter, and a letter asking for a date with a girl.....a good end twist would be that it all works out.
Let me know hwo it goes....

Answer 2

Step 1:
Identify the storyline. Is it going to be a murder mystery, love story, a story of misadventure, sci-fi story (travelling back in time) or fictional historical event?

Step 2:
Identify the protagonist (hero) and the antagonist (villain) of the story. How do they look like? What characteristics of these people are mention-worthy.

Step 3:
Select a list of words/phrases that are appropriate for the story that you are about to write.

Step 4:
Use this storyline if you are focusing on a narrative genre - Introduction, Development of story, Problematic situation, Climax, Resolution of problem and Conclusion.

Step 5:
Note that you need to use past tense more often than present tense.

If I were to write a story about 2 letters being sent to the wrong recipients, I'd choose to write about a fictional historical event. Example:
Adolf Hitler was an aspiring artist who tried to enrol in a prestigious art school. After months of anxious waiting, he received a rejection letter from the school. A peasant (from another German village), who had also applied for the same art school, got accepted. Unknown to both men, the postmen had delivered the wrong letters to them.

Hitler, spurned by multiple rejections from his youth, lost all hopes of being an artist. The final straw of hope for him, in the midst of poverty and hunger, was to enlist in the army. At least they'd feed him well, he thought.

Blah blah blah...art school realised the mistake and tried contacting Hitler but he was gone...peasant also tried searching for him but to no avail.

A good conclusion would have been something that leaves your reader pondering: Would history have been re-written in a different way if Hitler hadn't received the wrong letter from the art school?

Answer 3

Study Skills, Essay Writing.

As the essay paper has evolved it has become more demanding with much more emphasis on posing questions which allow candidates to display the higher order skills. Professor Roy Wilkinson of Sheffield University has identified a pyramid of skills which A level examinations try to test.

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The essay map, an optional part of an essay's introduction, is often a helpful tool for writers and is sometimes a useful guide for readers. Fundamentally, an essay map is a listing of the major reasons, arguments, causes, or effects that will be discussed in the essay. At first, this notion may sound too "clunky" to be useful. For instance, if a writer provides readers with the following sentences...

http://www.siue.edu/~smoiles/esymap.html

Literary Genres

http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/genre/genre.html

Good luck

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 4

use your imagination. first write two letters to the wrong people. then respond to them.. then write a story about it.play each character yourself... what happened when they recieved them? what was their response.? How did they look face wise? what did they say? what did they do? did they attempt to deliver them to the right people? did they succeed? what did they do with the letters? who were they really addressed to? why did they respond the way they did? How was the situation fixed--righted? ect.