Literature & Writing

Learning to Tell Stories

A beginner writer shares what she learned from an evening course about telling stories.

B17 min

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1Last year I joined an evening course about writing stories.

2Our teacher told us that every good story needs a problem.

3The main character must want something very much from the beginning.

4Then something difficult must stand in the main character's way.

5We practised by telling our short stories to each other in class.

6At first, my endings were always too quick and simple.

7The teacher showed me how to slow the ending down.

8I learned that small details make a story feel real.

9By the end of the course, I had written three full stories.

10One of them won a small prize at our local book festival.

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