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Gain Tremendous Variety

Adding to The Story Is Relatively Easy

Adding to the story is relatively easy if you use what you experienced while playing the game of whispering a story to the next person in a circle when we were children.

To recap what might have happened: each person heard the story differently, might not have listened to what their neighbor said in total, so repeated what they heard.

Dozens of other possible things could have happened. I remember we always marveled at what the last person told the group about the story that they heard.

You can apply that to writing and gain tremendous variety as you do. In addition to the information changing from one person to the next, the information’s interpretation also changed. The content came from many different perspectives.

Think about that when writing a short story, trying out many different combinations of content, and seeing how many stories you can write using this technique. It can be so much fun to embellish one story. Then give a different slant to the content in your next story. Then try to relate a story and see if you can keep the details accurate as to what happened.

You might be surprised that you could get a drama, comedy, documentary, or editorial, to name a few possible combinations from the same beginning content. Just give this a chance to help you increase your writing ability and have fun doing it.

Add as much as you want to every possible combination. Have fun, and you, too, will marvel at what the story could turn into and how much it changed — each version changes with the different applications.

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