Creative Writing - Adding to the Story

Adding to the story is quite 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 in a different way, might not have heard what their neighbor said in total so repeated what they heard and dozens of other possible things could have happened. I remember we always marveled at what the last person told the group the story was that they were just told.

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 interpretation of the information also changed. The content was also evaluated from many different perspectives.

Think about that when writing a short story and try out a number of different combinations of content and see how many stories you can write using this technique. It can be so much fun to embellish one story, give a different slant to the content in your next story and then try to actually 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 and/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 with each of the different applications.

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