How to learn to write stories. We write well: from idea to book

When working on a short story or novel, writing the perfect beginning can seem like the hardest thing to do. This is not an easy task, but it is doable! First of all, you need to decide on ideas if the theme of the work has not yet been formed. Write a rough outline of your plot and characters so you can focus on what's important, then get to work!

Steps

Part 1

Ideas

Use your imagination and think about “what if” questions. Questions like these allow you to look at an ordinary phenomenon from an unusual angle. Think it over possible options answers to these questions. It should be remembered that for each such question there is more than one answer. Don't stop answering them until one of the options captures your imagination and becomes the beginning of a whole story. Here are examples of similar questions:

• What if dinosaurs still existed?
• What if a person had a limited supply of luck for each day?
• What if your hair changed color every day?
• What if my best friend turned out to be a spy?

1. Ask questions that start with “I wonder” to create a believable story. Such questions allow you to delve deeper into cause-and-effect relationships and understand why an event happened, to whom it happened, and what emotions it provoked. Questions can be detailed or quite specific. The answers will allow you to get new information and see already known facts in a new light. Here are examples of similar questions:

   • I wonder what Zhenya does in his basement in the evenings?
   • I wonder what life is like for truck drivers?
   • I wonder how people live in the Arctic Circle?

2. Eavesdrop on other people's conversations. Listen to conversations in busy places like cafes and record what people say. Dialogues like this allow you to create characters and situational events. How do these people live? How are they related to each other? Create a general idea of ​​such characters and come up with a plot that centers on their lives. You can also use them as minor characters main storylines.

   • If you are afraid of causing inconvenience, then switch to another conversation.

3. Keep a journal of random ideas. Not all ideas fit into a full-fledged plot, but they will always help create new characters or sidelines. Don't discard “inappropriate” ideas and start writing them down in a separate list. Use a journal to capture ideas that aren't fully formed and come back to them again.

4. Read as much as possible. In the process of reading, it is easier to grasp the rules of plot development, as well as to form tastes and preferences. Do you like stories that start suddenly and end just as unexpectedly? Appreciate smooth storytelling with detailed description characters and setting? Is the plot of the story of paramount importance to you? Pay attention to the opening lines of the story, the way characters are introduced, and the pacing of the story to help you brainstorm ideas for your own story.

   • In the majority literary genres and forms there are clear rules, so read books and stories that are written in a style that suits you.

5. Use a story generator. Plot generators help you jumpstart a story by making unusual, inventive, or surprising suggestions. Sometimes a hint from the outside is enough to ignite a spark of imagination!

   • For a variety of plots you can use http://http://litgenerator.ru
   • For stories in the fantasy genre, you can use http://stormtower.ru/generator/generator-romantic.html
   • For detective stories use http://stormtower.ru/generator/generator-detectiv.html

6. Write several options. If you are not sure how to start a story, then write several options. Sometimes you have to work hard to find the perfect beginning for a story. This is the whole essence of the author’s work!

   • Start with a scene with the main character or the appearance of a character so that the reader immediately understands who the plot will be built around.
   • Start by describing the location of the events. First, give a general panorama of the area, and then narrow the area of ​​action to a home or hometown character.
   • Share the “secret” of the hero to immediately intrigue readers.
   • Describe central conflict at the very beginning, so that the reader wants to know what will happen next.
   • Start with a significant, dramatic or important memory. Be careful, as scenes from the past may confuse the reader if they are not already aware of the chronology.

We already know something about the genre of the story, about the author's intention, the importance of the plan and how to compose it from the article. It's time to talk about how to start writing a story, because the beginning is an important part, designed to attract the reader's attention.

How did the classics write?..

Story- This prose work small in size, which makes it absolutely necessary to hook the reader with something from the very first lines or paragraphs. If he wants to know what’s next, how events will develop, curiosity and inquisitiveness will lead him further.

During a writing course, one of the participants remarked: “Many writers of the 18th and 19th centuries have long descriptions at the beginning, and this did not stop them from becoming classics.”

Agree. The same Chekhov could give a description of nature at the beginning of the story, or rush into a rather long digression. And this is justified: in those years there was no TV or Internet, and time passed much more slowly.

Nowadays, with his clip-like perception of reality, one cannot get away with such long descriptions.

Classics are read by prepared people: they probably know about the peculiarities of the texts of writers of that time and are attuned to them. And from contemporaries, readers expect dynamics, special clues that will lead them after the heroes through the vicissitudes of their destinies.

Good start to the story

There are many options for a good start to a story. Let's look at a few of them.

Interesting scenery. Without being too descriptive, let the reader understand what the place looks like through sounds, smells, sensations and how it relates to you.

Inciting event. Some change in normal life natural course events.

For example, we describe the actions unfaithful wife, who at 12 o'clock at night on the threshold of her apartment is faced with an angry husband. Or we describe the moment of collision of two planes over a sleeping city.

An unexpectedly powerful statement. Amy Bloom's story "History" begins with the words, "You wouldn't have recognized me a year ago," and our curiosity is piqued.

It is not always easy or quick to find such a statement. However, it is worth spending time on it: it will be rewarded by reader interest.

...I am writing these lines. The balcony is open. The modern layout of houses creates a microphone effect, so everything that is said on the street can be heard very well on our second floor. I hear a woman loudly indignant while talking on the phone:

- They called her - and she calls me! Instead of solving the problem yourself...

And now I am the attention itself: I wanted to find out what angered the woman so much, who she was scolding, and what problem the other subscriber should solve on his own...

Hint. You can start by describing an ordinary event, but at the same time hint that something unusual is happening around you.

For example, morning in the village: the hostess calls everyone to the table, the children sit down, the husband habitually unfolds the newspaper. And at this time someone is watching them through binoculars from the window of a neighboring house. What is he observing? It is clear, not in vain - and the reader is tense, although he does not yet know what is going to happen.

Fascinating memory, sleep, etc. It is only important to make sure that the reader understands where the dream is and where the reality is.

Character Quirk. We've already talked about how to name characters so that they evoke emotions in the reader. Quirk is another important characteristic that will make our character memorable.

For example, your hero likes to eat with his hands. Or does he dye his hair green. And we report this at the very beginning of the story.

Interaction with others characters. The main thing is to remember: it is important to give more emotions.

Example: a dialogue between a negligent son and his father, furious at his actions. Do we want the reader to feel sorry for the son? Or is he as outraged as his father? The dialogues will be different, but they must be written in such a way as to attract the reader’s attention.

Let's exercise!

Think about what the story will be about, what its main idea is. Do you already know how you can hook your reader? Are you sure this will catch on?

Write the first 1-3 paragraphs of the story.

Call a friend or friend and read the beginning of your story: are they hooked?

You can post it trial options in the comments under this article, and together we will think about how intriguing or exciting your beginning was.

A little more of your attention...

P.S. I remind you of comment competition, which I decided to do due to the fact that the three thousandth comment (not counting mine) is not far away. I wrote about the competition for the first time under, which, by the way, I posted in full today.

The conditions are simple:

• to the lucky person who writes a comment № 3000, I decided to give my electronic the book "Nymph and the Hooligan";
• a participant in the competition can become anyone interested aged 16+;
• if the text of the three thousandth comment is uninformative, consists of several words or meaningless phrases, the prize will go to the author of the first high-quality comment that appears after the anniversary one.

Start writing stories - and an article "How to start writing a story" to help you!

If you are a master of storytelling interesting cases from life and various stories, then perhaps you should think about writing a story. Most new authors begin their literary careers with this genre of works. This does not mean that absolutely everyone, without exception, achieves certain success in this matter. Some stop their literary work, having barely started, most likely because they do not know all the rules of writing interesting story. So let's try to figure out how to start a story that is popular with readers.

The creations of an inexperienced writer are most often crude and unfinished in terms of style and content of the story. However, such errors can be eliminated or corrected if you know some secrets.

Choosing an audience for a story

How to start writing a story? You must first decide on the possible audience of readers. That is, you need to decide for whom you will write, who will be interested in your creation. However, you should not strive to please everyone, because, unfortunately, this is impossible. You need to try to find your reader.

Choosing a story topic

Next you need to select a topic. There is no point in reinventing the wheel here, but brilliant theme there is no point in waiting, since it will take many hours, and maybe even days. It is possible that while you are busy choosing, some other author will write a story on the topic that you are thinking about. Don't waste precious minutes, start writing about what interests you.

The main secrets of writing a story

Before you start a story, remember the main rule once and for all: you need to arouse the reader’s interest. To achieve this, you need to take into account three points when writing a work:

• Intrigue
• Style
• Understatement

If all these elements are present in sufficient quantities, the story will be popular.

Plot

A story cannot be called a story if it lacks a plot. Your main task is to make the reader interested in the work, attracting, for example, a gradually revealing intrigue. If the reader gets bored while reading, then there is a high probability that he will not reach the end of the work. Still, you shouldn’t give up describing the world around you or the hero’s thoughts, but you shouldn’t abuse them either.

Style

Sometimes there are authors who spoil a brilliant plot with poor quality presentation. Almost no one reads such works, and if they do, they absolutely do not understand what is written in it, and put the story in the back drawer of the table. Therefore, be sure to pay attention to the presentation style; it should be understandable to the reader.

Understatement

One of the most complex rules When writing a story, it is important to maintain understatement. A well-written piece makes the reader think about what is possible. life path heroes, even after the work has been read. However, there are no specific rules and therefore the author himself must achieve the desired effect.

The rules described above work for all types of works. Want to write a porn story? The beginning of such a story is usually no different from the classic one. Therefore, our article will help you in this case too!

Hello friends.
I'm starting a new series: "How to Write a Story."

Now my collection of short stories and journalism is in publishing. There is also a written story that was published in the collection “Proverbs of the 21st Century”. In total I have written more than 30 of the most different stories, now I’m working on their publication.

To be honest, writing short stories is many times more difficult than writing a novel. Many people admit this. But it is not without reason that many writers admit that the art of the story is much more complex than the art of the novel.

If a major work contains weak points– they more than pay off in strong places. The main thing is that there are not many of them. You know, it's like girls reading War and Peace? They skim through the war, but read the world. Because there are weak points even in such a great novel as War and Peace. In a novel you can carry water, but in a story - never.

But the beauty of the story is that if you manage to create a strong work, a strong story, then you immediately grow by several orders of magnitude.

And in your own eyes, and not in the eyes of others. Indeed, the best competition is with yourself. And the realization that today you are better than yesterday is the most beautiful thing in self-development.

And to be able to create a story, then write it, and then publish it is something that everyone who writes must be able to do.

And I also promise that I will not write nonsense - something that is not interesting to me. For example, the origin of the story, the history of the story is not always interesting, even literary critics, it seems to me.

Let's get started!

In this series I am definitely planning 10 parts with detailed examples:

1. Story Basics (here it is)
2. Three-act structure + composition
3. Conflict
4. Characters
5. Climax
6. Initiation
7. Style
8. Detail
9. Publication

The peculiarity of the previous episodes was that I not only told the theory, but also showed specific examples strong texts. It will be so this time too.

Requirements for the story. Components

In fact, the difficulty of the story is that you need not only to know in theory what the story includes.

But it's important to practice it. Make it your daily practice.

The minimum that a story should include

• Thoughtfulness of construction
• Conciseness
• High plot tension
• Interesting heroes
• Acute conflict.
• Understatement. It's complicated.

This is exactly what I will talk about in each of the parts, only in more detail.

Common mistakes when creating a story

Beginners often make common mistakes

1. Lack of preparation.

I think this is the main mistake of writers. Especially beginners, but also experienced ones sometimes do not prepare enough.

To begin with, you should think about the plan of the story, what you want to say. And only then.

You need to think through all the details, the conflict, the portrait of each character. And only then begin the story itself.

1. Conceit

“I don’t need to study”, “I can handle it” - typical thoughts of a writer with self-importance

You need to work, work as much as it takes to make the text work, so that the thoughts in the text are exactly as needed.

1. No passion

An old rule of writers says: “What is written without passion will be read without passion.”

Many people write because they want to write. Graphomania clean water. And everyone goes through this stage. But when you already realize that you shouldn’t do this, it means that inside you have inner strength don't be graphomaniac anymore.

Learn to write strongly. Learn to write thoughtfully. Don't rush

Some define the story by place and time. Unity of place and time. THAT is what happens in a certain period of time and in a certain place. Then Joyce's Ulysses is a story, just drawn out.

But there are stories where this rule is not followed, and it is still a story.

A story is best defined as being up to 45 pages long. Why this particular number?

Prose that is longer than 45 pages is already a story. And if there are several plot lines, then it’s a novel.

Working on a story is like working in a carpentry workshop.

Before you start creating a story, you need to think about its structure.

I use 5 elements for each story. Today I will share them briefly, but in the future there will be a whole article dedicated to this component of the story.

1. Idea

What idea do I want to put into the story? For example

• The rabbit wants to live, but he is sent to the kitchen as the main course of the evening.
• Taking care of a woman is an honor for every man.
• Having children is happiness

That is, an idea is a simple belief that you want to reveal. Moreover, there may be two stories in which there are directly opposite ideas.

For example, the first story will be written loving husband: “Taking care of a woman is an honor for every man.” And the second story will be written by a man who just got divorced, and his idea will be: “Women are the most vile creatures.” This is why we love different authors - each has their own values.

1. The main conflict. A highlight that will move.

Let's take the second idea. Let's imagine that our male hero loves his wife. And she had an accident.

His reflections, his desires, thoughts and most importantly, actions and help to his wife - this will be the body of the story. And the more difficult it is for his wife, the more acute the conflict.

1. Heroes. Features with which I sympathize and empathize.

Young people are always in a hurry, headphones in their ears.

Old people are grouchy.

Businessmen are rich, dissatisfied with life.

This is a very simple and primitive view of life, and such stories look flat and are read without interest.

Your characters should be interesting. Sit in a cafe for at least an hour. Will you meet at least two identical people there? One speaks loudly, the other is calm, the third has the habit of biting his nails. IN real world we are all different.

So why do we make people monotonous and boring in the story.

1. Three-act structure + composition

All serious films and books usually have three main acts:

- the beginning. About 20% of the story.

- development of the conflict. Here we present the main development of the conflict and the entire situation. This usually averages out to 60% of the story.

- denouement. This is 20% of the total volume.

I will write more about this later, as promised, in one of the parts of the series.

1. Climax

This is the main thing in any work. You can perfectly think through and work out the entire structure of the book, and then blunt the ending and everything will blur.

It is after the climax and denouement that the aftertaste remains.

1. Strong syllable

Words that catch and are interesting to read. Each accomplished author has his own style that is felt.

You will see this in the examples of stories by Zoshchenko, Hemingway, Chekhov, which I have included as a bonus. And also in Zoshchenko’s story, which you can read right in this article.

Examples of strong stories. Zoshchenko's story

Mikhail Zoshchenko - master short prose, stories

In the application you can download 3 short stories, which I think are very powerful.

And here I want to talk about one story. It has everything - an idea, a structure, a strong style.

This is Mikhail Zoshchenko - master short stories that make you roll on the floor laughing.

DEATH OF A HUMAN

It's over. That's it! There is no pity for people left in my heart.
Yesterday, before six o’clock in the evening, I sympathized with and respected people, but now I can’t,
kids. Human ingratitude has reached its final point.
Yesterday, if you please, I suffered desperately for my pity for my neighbor and,
maybe even stand before the people's court in the near future.
Basta. My heart has become hardened. Let my neighbors no longer count on me.
And yesterday I was walking down the street. Yesterday I was walking down the street and I saw people standing crowded near the gate. And someone groans desperately. And someone is shaking their hands, and in general I see an incident. I'm approaching. I ask what the noise is about.
- Yes, they say that one citizen broke his leg here. Can't walk now...
“Yeah, I’m saying, there’s no time for walking here.”
I pushed the audience aside and moved closer to the scene of action. And I see that some little man is really lying on the stove. His muzzle is desperately white and his trouser leg is broken. And he lies there, dear friend, with his head resting against the very cabinet and mutters:
- Like, it’s quite slimy, citizens, I apologize. He walked and fell, of course. The leg is a thing
fragile.
My heart is warm, I have a lot of pity for people, and I generally cannot see death
person on the street.
. - Brothers, I say, yes, maybe he is a member of the union. We must do it nonetheless.
And, of course, I rush into telephone booth. I call ambulance. I say: a man’s leg is broken, hurry up to the address.
The carriage arrives. Four doctors come out in white overalls. They disperse the crowd and place the injured person on a stretcher.
By the way, I see that this man absolutely does not want to be put on a stretcher. He pushes all four doctors with his good leg and doesn’t let them get to him.
“Fuck you,” he says, “all four doctors back and forth.” Maybe I’m in a hurry to get home, he says.
And you know, he almost cries.
“What,” I think, “is this confusion in a person’s mind?”
And suddenly there was some confusion. And suddenly I hear someone calling me.
- They say, uncle, you called an ambulance?
- I speak.
- Well, so, they say, you will have to answer to the fullest extent for this.
revolutionary laws. Because it was in vain to call the carriage - the citizen has an artificial
the leg broke off.
They wrote down my name and left.
And that after this fact I would still upset my noble heart—not in my life! Let them kill a person before my eyes - I won’t believe it for anything. Because maybe they kill him for filming.
And in general I don’t believe anything now - the time is so incredible.

Without further ado.

Idea There is.

Conflict- There is.

Style- gorgeous. It must be said that in the 20s of the twentieth century there was a heyday of the story, Zoshchenko, Babel, Green appeared. And at the intersection of jargon, prison vocabulary, military and colloquial vocabulary, Zoshchenko’s style appeared. In my opinion, it’s brilliant.

Structure- There is. It doesn't matter if it's short or not.

Heroes- simple and clear.

Climax- unexpected

How to write a story. First conclusions

Creating a story is work. I like how Yuri Olesha, a writer of the 20-30s of the twentieth century, compared writing to miner’s work. Indeed, you get tired as hell from thought processes. Sometimes I just want to breathe out, then I take a book, sit on the balcony and read the hellish work of another. I am touched, especially when I see the serious efforts of other writers.

And by finishing this series, you will have all the necessary minimum arsenal to create a strong story.

And the promised gift: one of best stories Zoshchenko, Hemingway and Chekhov.

Briefly about me: Author of two blogs (and Word of Encouragement), head of the Slovo text studio. I have been writing since 1999, I have been earning money through texts since 2013. Let's be friends on social networks.

Firstly, I realized that you can’t wait for inspiration. Inspiration is an insidious thing. It is very difficult to adapt to it. It’s almost impossible if you work or study at the same time. There is no need to wait for inspiration. Treat writing a story like school essay– whether you want it or not, you have to work. After all, no one told the teacher: Mary Ivanna, I didn’t pass my essay about Masha and Dubrovsky, there was no inspiration.

Secondly, I realized that three things are important for a story: meaning, style and volume. Simply put, it should be clear, beautiful and concise.
Having learned these two main things, Let's start the story, observing the seven rules.

First. First, determine what the story will be about by summarizing the content in one sentence. Phrases: “about love” or “about friendship” are not suitable. We need specifics. For example: about how Cinderella was fired from her job due to the machinations of her boss; about why Thumb is sad when it rains.

Second. The second step is creating characters. You carefully consider the image of the main character (hereinafter referred to as the GG). What is he like? Gender-age, eye-hair-skin color, character, habits, biography, who he lives with, what he loves, who he looks like, etc.
Then take a piece of paper and write down everything you come up with on it. Very detailed and thorough. And then you pin the sheet to the tabletop to make it easier to peek, and UNDER NO EVENT! do not include this description in the story. At least in this volume.
A common mistake of novice authors is that they try to squeeze all the information about the character into the text of the story. Over the course of two pages, unfortunate readers learn that GG “had black, cheerful eyes, black curly hair, he had a snow-white smile, full lips and a wide mouth. He was tall, with strong, muscular arms and legs. He was thirty years old, eighteen of which he spent in an orphanage, because his parents, when he was five years old...” Such an opus usually ends like this: “he had black skin, he was a black man.”
It is much simpler, clearer and more expressive to write: “He was a middle-aged black man, lonely, but not discouraged under any circumstances.”
Let me make a reservation right away that I am not advocating brevity of presentation. I don’t like it when it’s short. I find 55-word stories especially scary. So we will soon get to stories of 55 letters.
But now we are talking about a story in which (see above) volume is important. This means that we need to get rid of everything unnecessary, so we cut off the floridness of the text mercilessly.

Third. We come up with a plot. The main condition is entertainment and dynamism. Priority to dialogues. Try to express the characters' feelings in THEIR words, not your own.
For example, for a story it is better:
“You're pissing me off, Chupacabra! - Puss-in-Boots hissed, playing with the hilt of his sword.
How:
“Puss-in-Boots felt a wild, primitive rage boiling in the depths of his being, like water in a kettle. He narrowed his eyes, fluffed his tail belligerently, pushed back his wide-brimmed hat, crowned with a plume of scarlet ostrich feathers, and began stroking with his paw, which instantly revealed steel claws and ceased to be velvet, the hilt of the sword that he received under the following circumstances ... "
How to build a plot?
The formula for a regular story is simple. Introduction, adventure, ending. The introduction should be interesting, and the ending should be significant. The introduction lures the reader in, and the ending makes him (the reader) think about the story for some time after reading. Even if, after reading your story, a person freezes for three seconds, staring into space, and thinks: “That’s what it’s like!..” - consider this a victory. Your story came true.
Don't start your introduction from afar. This is not a story or a novel, where you can admire the surroundings for a couple of pages, then mention the glare rising sun to the sea, and then devote another five pages to describing an ancient castle, towards which a flock of black swans is flying across this very sea. There must be some kind of intrigue that will make the reader hold his gaze, wonder: what will happen next? Well, let's see...
If the introduction and ending are more or less clear, let’s move on to the adventures. You can call them conflicts, events - the essence will not change. For the dynamics of the story, it would be good to have at least three conflict-adventures. For example, the meeting of Puss-in-Boots with youngest son the miller and their criminal conspiracy to seize the kingdom and surrounding territories; the said characters' raid on the royal palace, during which they steal the Sansi diamond and the princess; rescuing a runaway princess from a werewolf, followed by the princess falling in love with her savior, Puss-in-Boots. As an introduction, one can imagine the Cat stealing designer boots from Armani, and the ending is the Cat’s flight from the princess in love with an apology that he is not able to make her happy.

Fourth. Having decided on the hero and plot, we proceed directly to writing. We write as best we can, trying, nevertheless, to remember the three pillars of the story - clarity, beauty and brevity.
Remember about bright images, try to avoid banalities. It is better to describe the night as the shine of a bottle fragment on the ground (see A.P. Chekhov), and not as “the silver light of a ghostly moon in a dark blue sky strewn with stars.”
As a result of the fourth step, you will most likely end up with a story on 15 pages in 14 font. This is approximately 20,000-30,000 characters. That is, twice the norm. We confidently proceed to the next stage.

Fifth. Correction of the story. We stock up on a dozen handkerchiefs to wipe involuntary tears, re -read the text and delete (while maintaining the meaning) extra adjectives (“black black”, “cold, sparkling snow”) and attractive pronouns - mine, my, yours, and so on. (“he hit me with HIS hand”, “when I woke up, I realized that MY neck still hurt”). After editing, the text will be reduced by approximately two pages. But, I assure you, the reader will still understand that the black man was black, the snow was cold, and after you were hit, it was your neck that hurt.
Then the most unpleasant and difficult part begins. It is necessary to cut down not just unnecessary words, but unnecessary text. Ideally, no more than 10 pages should remain, which means three pages should be mercilessly erased. We stop crying and re-read the story again. We read very carefully, from time to time deleting entire paragraphs that do not carry a semantic load for confirmation main idea story (see point one). Anything beyond dismissal poor Cinderella from work - chic business suits and crystal sneakers; memories of how her stepmother poured orange juice on her in the bus stop last year; breakfast, during which Cinderella ate a piece of Anna Pavlova cake and was sad about the absurd death of the great artist - we delete it.
Feel like plastic surgeons cutting off a cute but somewhat flabby face famous singer, superfluous. The singer should leave the operating table with her face as elastic as a rubber ball. Nothing extra! No: “this mole looks so cute...”!
Think not about your desires, but about the desires of the singer. She doesn't need sentimental senile moles, she wants a full stretch. So give her what she wants! Cut what you can and stretch it to the limit!
You will cry over the mole at home, counting the fee.

Sixth. Inexperienced authors often believe that the sixth stage in creating a story is unnecessary. And they proudly rush to post a story (and in fact, not a story, but a raw semi-finished product) for reading or send it to a publishing house, and then are offended when they are subjected to devastating criticism.
But this is so easy to avoid if you follow a simple rule: before sharing your story in public, let it sit for a while. Two or three days, a week, if you have the patience. And if you last a month, hats off!
Question: why do this?
Answer: because after a while you will re-read what you wrote with fresh eyes. And you will notice errors that you have not seen before. Remember that the more often you perform this manipulation, the cleaner the text will be. By following the sixth rule, you will make your story shine like a diamond, otherwise it risks remaining an uncut diamond - a dull, clumsy stone, the value of which no one knows.
Read the story out loud, with expression. This will help identify dissonant word and letter combinations, and random repetitions. Try to make your story become a song, read like a prose poem.

And finally seventh. Take another half hour to read the story and correct any mistakes in spelling and punctuation. Lack of knowledge or hard work? Give it to a smart friend. Let him add commas, write “not” separately with verbs, and deal with the suffixes “ber-bir”, “der-dir”. And don’t talk about the fact that there are editors and proofreaders, and that they are paid money for this. That's not what they get paid for. And for finding RANDOM errors.
If a story begins with “glorious glory,” 99% will immediately stop reading it. Of course, someone will read it, but only to laugh at the poor student or comment: “Supirski! Hurry up!”
Believe me, grammatical errors are as disgusting as a hair in a restaurant dish.
But seriously, write from the heart, write as your heart tells you. After all, talent and inspiration are great strength. And if you have them, then everything will definitely work out.