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How to Make the Story Come Together

It is refreshing to quiet that inner critic

Increase Your Creative Writing Skills — Start Your Story from the End

See if you can create a story going from the end back toward the beginning. Let me explain how you might do that. Select the ending you want.

Next, think about what might have been going on right before the result you wrote down as your ending. Choose from your story idea stash or create a new idea and have that be in place as the part of the story that led to your end. Next, move back one step further.

What might have been going on in this part of your story? These events will allow you to flow to the last two pieces you selected.

Let me put this in another way so you can get a better idea of how to do this.

Pretend you needed a birthday cake for a particular person and you were not going to stop by the store and buy one. The last thing you might put on the cake would be candles.

· Moving back, the cake would need icing.

· Moving back one more step, placing the cake on a plate.

· Moving back one more step, the cake would come out of the baking pans.

· Moving back one more step, the cake would be cooling after coming out of the oven.

You can follow the process back to the time when you decided to make the cake.

When you have completed this exercise, you can read through the steps. From beginning to end, this time and see if the steps are in order and exactly what was needed at that time to reach the outcome you wanted, in this case, a birthday cake with candles on it.

Do you see how you could use the process in reverse in your writing? It is a fabulous way to create a story and be sure you have put in all of the details for your reader to follow, so the story comes together. It is also a way to use the creative part of your brain to set up the sequence and make sense of the movement and flow of the material you are writing.

When moving backward, you will immediately be aware that something is missing if you have left one step out. When you are moving forward with your writing, it is more challenging to catch that you might have overlooked an essential detail.

Another thing that is great about writing this way is that your inner critic will have quite a challenge trying to find something to point out to you about what you are doing. It is refreshing to quiet that inner critic, enjoy the process, and create a story you can use.

When you are not second-guessing and questioning everything you write, it removes a great deal of pressure. You may find that if you have writer’s block, it may help you get past that. Repeat the process as often as you like by making this a tool for you to use as needed.

I find it is so much fun to write in this way. It often is my choice when asked to write for someone else or a publisher. I can go about it knowing that the potential to have a good article or story is very high. That allows me to relax and write. I find I can complete my story more quickly, and I feel more confident when I present the story.

These things can change your sense of accomplishment and satisfaction about writing, and I find every use of this tool to be of value. See what you think after you try this writing method and approach.

A variation of this story first seen on https://creativewritingmadeeasy.com

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