what the organization of a story is?

Answer 1

Hi, making something that whole books have been written about short; a story needs:


Set-up:
You introduce your main charachyters and their situation in space and time.

Trigger - Excuse:
something happens which makes your characters have a good reason to take the challenge and sets up the goals or objectives - plot to fail or win at the end of the story.

Obstacles:
problems you put in your characters way so they can succeed or not accomplishing the final goal. Depending how long is the story you can add more obstacles or create several paralel stories. All leading to the climax.

Climax or everything is decided here.
In very short explosive moment that is actually made longer in time and spece by the writer: All the success and problems that you charcter had to solve to reach their objectives and goals gather, with all the tension, in a final definitive moment where something, the whole plot is resolved. The goals accomplished or not. The tensions relieved. All questions answered.

Resolution or The Cigarrete after sex:
One proportionally short ending were you tell, show or hint what are the consequences of for the main character by having reached their goals or not. Often it has humor to help relive the tension which the whole storyu build up too. It makes the reader feel a moment of collection of thoguts, reflection, relaxment etc that feels like a cigarrete after sex.

In very short with these and some spices you can cook a whole decent story.

Remember before starting to write you must know the ending because elemts which appear in the ending need to thread or included all along the story, so the reader can find meaningfull or sensible the story.

"Beggining to write a story without knowing the end is like shooting an arrow without a target..."
Me, 14th of Sept. 2007

Isn´t it nice to be able to quote yourself?
I mean Myself.

Hope it helps
Santiago

Answer 2

No one format. But if you're trying to teach basic storycraft, here's a good outline:

Character, Setting
Problem
Trials
Climax
Resolution

Won't work on all stories, mind you.

Answer 3

a story must have a beginning, a middle, and an end ,with details and plot in the middle