A story.

A story.

             Everyone needs a story. A story that makes him someone special. If you don’t have your own story, you can make it up. Writers make up tons of stories: some of them come from their imagination, some of them are taken from real life, some are real stories modified by author’s point of view. But there is no “real” story: even if you simply list the facts, you put a drop of your own color to the whole image of that story anyway. You put them in a certain order, you mark certain details, you use certain words, you put pauses in certain places. That’s why there are so many stories: funny, sad, serious, scary, stupid etc. There are stories you forget right away after you heard it, there are stories that strike you and make you pondering over them again and again, there are stories that motivate you, and stories that just amuse you. And there are stories that live forever. Those are the stories for writers.  

           A word history includes the word story. A good story is about the history, about the past, about what happened to someone. You can’t tell the story about what is happening to you now. That’s why it’s better to write your story when it’s over, when you can take a detached view on it, when you can observe and analyze it, color it, even change it, when you can play with it. It’s better to write the story when it’s not the story that controls you, but it’s you who control the story. Otherwise you could be overwhelmed with emotions and end up just replacing the story with your feelings, your emotions, your personality etc. Your personality is probably interesting to your family. No one else is interested in you. Every reader wants to see a story, not a pure psychological portrait of the author. If you want to come closer to a reader, to interest him, show him that you have something in common. That he could have been a character of your story, that he feels the same, that he acts the same way. Then the reader will love your story.