Tuesday's Writer's Tip - More on Testing a Story Idea -Too Personal? #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Story Idea

 Last time we looked at Your story to tell. Today, could the story be too personal for your readers? We all have out soap boxes but putting thm in stories can make the story iffy for some readers.When writing you want to share and communicate with others. Maybe you want to have fun writing the story and want the readers to have fun reading what you've written. You could also want the story to go big and make you lots of money. These are a few reasons but are they the real one. Maybe you really want to have written without doing the hard work to make the story shine.

What may be important to you might bore the person reading the books. I've run into some stories that I seldom finish since the writers seem to be campaigning for something and for me the story falls flat.

Maybe what you want to say is too personal and you are unable to catch the reader. The story may be on a soap box but isn't clear the the reader just what the story has for them.

When the writing is personal you need to be able to step back and take your self from the story. Sure it's yours to tell but there needs to be deeper meanings. As an aside, this is why I will never write an autobiography. My life has had interesting moments but nothing I'd want to share. I can take these incidents and put them into my stories without injecting myself into the narrative.

So take the idea that may be very personal and use it as a basis for emotions among your characters but keep them off the soap box,

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Writing Tip -- Protagonist

Once you have your idea for a novel, you need a person through whose eyes the reader will see the story unfold. There can be more than one main character and each one must tie into the idea in some way. In romances, there are usually two -- the heroine and the hero. What a writer needs to decide is how each fits into the idea. In romances, usually the idea is love winning out. In a mystery there are often the hero/heroine and the villain. Each fits a facet of the idea. Crime does or does not pay.

I sometimes write stories with many main characters. The idea here is that each must fit the idea. In the YA I'm working on, the fourth of the story the main idea is good versus evil and this often fits into the fantasy novel as an idea but I have given my young protagonists affinities with the elements -- Earth, Air, Water and Fire. So here there are a number of ideas that must be blended into the major idea. Hard work but slowly I'm getting there. Because there are a number of protagonists on the hero/heroine side, there are a number of villains. In this cast only one has a viewpoint and that is in the final book. He has been designed to fit into the idea of the book which started with my imagining what if someone could control Earth, Air, Fire and Water.