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6 great tips for a great story

As per my other tumble: Great leaders tell great stories Book Review
and Steve Denning’s tips about StoryTelling
here are 6 great tips for a story

  1. Try to pick the most intriguing place in your piece to begin
  2. Try to create attention-grabbing images of a setting if that’s where you want to begin
  3. Raise the reader’s curiosity about what is happening or is going to happen in an action scene
  4. Describe a character so compellingly that we want to learn more about what happens to him or her
  5. Present a situation so vital to our protagonist that we must read on
  6. And most important, no matter what method you choose, start with something happening! (And not with ruminations. A character sitting in a cave or in jail or in a kitchen or in a car ruminating about the meaning of life and how he got to this point does not constitute something happening.)
Tell a great story and have a great time!

6 Rules for a Great Story from Barnaby Conrad and Snoopy
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/12/snoopy-barnaby-conrad-rules-for-stories/

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