Story Lab: Telling a Story

This week, I decided to take a break from writing stories and participate in the Story Lab. I feel like this will be really helpful for weekly assignments and for the Storybook.

I decided to read the EmpoWord Chapter 2. From the description, it says that it is best for college writers, which in this class, that is exactly what I am. 

This chapter starts off by saying how important narration is. I completely agree with this statement. Narration is something that can make or break a story in my opinion. There are many ways to switch up narration which is a bonus. 

A word that I hadn't heard before in regards to storytelling is scope. This means the boundaries of a plot. It focuses on what important information is needed to better understand the story and what is the main focus. I think that I may have an issue of making my scope too broad. When I'm writing a story, I seem to open up too many possibilities in case I want to switch it up at the end or if I am trying too hard to make the story worthwhile. Narrowing down the scope will make the story easier to read and more focused on what truly matters to the plot. 

telling a story

Characterization is another important part of a story. This is the development of characters through different parts of a story, such as actions, descriptions, and dialogue. When I try to think of story ideas, I sometimes get caught up in only the actions rather than other parts of that character. I see myself making my characters one dimensional at times rather than expanding on many different parts of them. If I am able to create more characterization throughout the entire story, not just at the beginning, then it will make for a better story and better character development. 

Using images is also something I want to do better at. I feel as if sometimes I search for an image and I use the first thing available. I want to take the time the find better images that truly describe my story. This may be an obvious picture or something that needs more explaining. Creating new story ideas can be difficult. I like the idea of taking a picture somewhere every hour. At the end of the day you can make a story based off of the images. This is a new and fresh take on story telling that I would really like to try sometime.