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What Makes A Good Story? What Do I Need To Do in Order To Write A Good Story?

The document discusses the elements that make a good story and provides an overview of creative nonfiction. It defines a story as a narration of events that describes who, what, when, where, and how something happened. A story can be real or imaginary. The document also defines literary genres as being either fiction or nonfiction and lists the common elements of each genre as characters, story, plot, and setting.

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What Makes A Good Story? What Do I Need To Do in Order To Write A Good Story?

The document discusses the elements that make a good story and provides an overview of creative nonfiction. It defines a story as a narration of events that describes who, what, when, where, and how something happened. A story can be real or imaginary. The document also defines literary genres as being either fiction or nonfiction and lists the common elements of each genre as characters, story, plot, and setting.

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CREATIVE NONFICTION

LESSON 1

WHAT MAKES A GOOD


STORY? WHAT DO I NEED
TO DO IN ORDER TO
WRITE A GOOD STORY?
What is a story? Why do we write stories? These are
questions that we commonly ask ourselves, isn’t it?

• A story is a narration of how something


happened. It tells us who, what, when, where
and how a particular event took place.
• A story could be real or imaginary. What makes
a good story? What are the elements of
different Genres? These are the things that we
will discuss in this lesson.
• A Literary Genre is a writing style in making
or writing a piece. The genre is a category
used to classify the work of an author.
• A Literary Genre can either be Fiction or
Nonfiction. When we say Fiction, these are
writings or stories created from the mind or
imagination of the author while, Nonfiction
are writings that are factual, realistic and
existing. They are not imaginary.
Each Genre has different elements
however let us remember that generally a
genre has 4 different elements namely:
Character, Story, Plot, and Setting.
CHARACTE
RS
1. Character – These
are the person, animals,
things or creatures doing
and performing the
actions in the story.
STORY
2. Story – The narration of the
actions that took place in the story.
PLOT
3. Plot – The sequence
of events that took place
in the story.
SETTING
.
4 Setting – The place and time where
the story happened.

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