Write Better Stories, part Two: 6 Things To Avoid And To Be Sure To Incorporate (If You Can).

Thursday we talked about how to make a good story. (Click HEREfor that.) Today we’ll go over a few do’s and don’ts.

Six of them, more or less.

1. What we tend to do as new writers is describe things that are not important, like the color of Fred’s car or details about his two-story, split level house.

Why do we do that? Well, to set the scene, but that stuff isn’t important unless the wolf (there was a wold attacking Fred on Thursday) only jumps into cars the color or Fred’s, or the fire department was told to rescue the kid in the yellow, two-story split level house – like they didn’t get an address.

I see this kind of mistake a lot.

I’ll usually ask “Do we need to know this?” and if so, “Do we need to know it right here?” Usually we don’t. Get rid of…