HOW TO WRITE

GHOST STORIES

- Fear is the hardest thing to provoke in writing. Making a ghost story is effective if it is realistic and it would be better if you really experienced it.

-         BRAINSTORMING

Think of what is it all about and how it starts. Be original. Find an idea and start expanding this idea into scenes and into writing the ghost stories. You can also do the story board and number each scenes according on what you want. You have to make an eye-catching beginning, a breathless middle and a satisfying ending.

-         SETTINGS

Create a plausible and believable setting. The ghost story requires the reader to be shown the atmosphere, not told. The setting is not required to be creepy. It can be a common place with uncommon scenes.

-         PLOT

A ghost story needs a plot. Think about the best way t scare your audience. Create a mystery. All great ghost stories have a mystery behind them. Take an ordinary situation and inject something extraordinary. You may also involve figuring out who the ghost is. Don’t present a ghost without a background.

-         BODY

Readers need to be removed from their cozy surroundings and brought into the spooky world of ghosts. Look for emotional aspect in a story and add some high emotional states to reiterate how scared the reader should be. Character should have some element of fear that the reader can be made to feel along with him. Show the emotion through the character’s action, rather than simply telling the reader how the characters feel. Then end the story with a question in the mind of your readers.

-         TITLE

Make a title that fits to your story.

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