Standout Story: “The Dead” 15. Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King. Featuring some truly dark and horrific denouements, this short story collection includes three award-winning stories, one of which won the O. Henry Award for best short story of the year in 1996. Each story also includes personal commentary by King himself! This story isn’t, of course, real [don’t @ me, pear mafia!], but it does illustrate the ways in which paying attention the frame surrounding a story can help us to rethink the content of the story. In this fictional scenario, the story of the toxic apple juice seems designed to motivate its audience to buy more pear juice, and we read it in True. A short-story writer must concentrate on a few outstanding character traits in each important character. True. Dialogue in a story is not designed to imitate real conversation. False. A short story usually has a large number of characters. False. The denouement comes at the beginning of a story. False. A character is any animate figure within a story. So, things like plants and non-living objects would not normally be considered characters, unless of course these things have been personified and brought to life. A character’s development speaks of the depth and complexity of a character. It’s possible that a character starts out A narrative consists of a set of events (the story) recounted in the process of narration (or discourse ), in which the events are selected and arranged in a particular order (the plot, which can also mean "story synopsis"). The term "emplotment" describes how, when making sense of personal experience, authors or other storytellers structure The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all his secrets for writing a compelling script. Based on the lessons in his award-winning class, Great Screenwriting, The Anatomy of Story draws on a broad range of philosophy and mythology, offering fresh techniques and insightful anecdotes alongside Truby's own unique 2. Last Dance by Chip Houser. The story was published in November 2017 in fiftywordstories. The title portrays as much as the story leaving me with questions. First line. Alone on a sidewalk, a young girl dances. Read more on fiftywordstories. 3. Thunderclap by Sarah Scott. The outer/main story is called as frame story. I can even say when one or more than one stories are present inside the main story that is known as nested stories. Yet I found the story-within-the-story so compelling that I simply would not give it up. Here are some of things I learned along the way that helped me tame the material: Pay close attention to pacing and rhythm. Make sure that each section of the sub-story ends on a note of suspense or tension, to keep the reader interested. Man vs. technology. Man vs. supernatural. Man vs. fate. Man vs. self. Typically, a story has several small conflicts and a large, overarching internal or external conflict. While all the elements of a story are crucial, conflict is the one that makes your story interesting and engaging. Smyu.