Topic: Story writing winners

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Story writing winners

The great classics of stories are like Alice in wonderland  strike a chord on human emotions that make them memorable

In Alice the magical mushroom made her bigger and smaller so that the reader could experience the difficulties of being over size and over small  the same with Gulliver’s travels.
Other stories such as being able to magically transport your self to another dimension as in Alice through the looking glass.
Many myriads of stories are copies of some of these plots. Space travel, time travel etc.

Being powerful, being venerable, being intelligent.
Meeting some one that is mad or funny, dumb, silly, interesting, different.

Tapping into the basic instincts of human behavior is the secret of a good story
One instant is of angels
No creature has arms legs as well as wings on their back unless it is an insect
How ever here is a basic thing to humans.
When we are very small and are totally dependant on mother we will cry out when we want some attention such as hungry or uncomfortable.
So what happens is that we are picked up and ‘fly’ to a great comforting ‘angel’ and get fed etc.
So where do we get picked up.  From the arms and shoulder blades and hence the wish later in life to be able to fly with wings on our back like an angel.
I used to my self dream often that if I was harassed by some one I could wiggle my shoulder blades and fly and over come  all difficulties.
It was only recently I realized it was a subconscious regression to when my mother picked me up by the shoulders and comforted me that made me feel that flying by wriggling my shoulders was a way to over come difficulties.

Described to me one day as the worlds greatest confidence  trick is the Harley Davidson motor bike the 90 degree arrangement of the motors cylinders gives a throbbing push that imitates walking in humans.
Our walking action has two components the leg motion and then the knee motion that just happens to be 90 degrees apart in the full cycle of two leg movements exactly the motion that the Harley Davidson gives.
Other  motors such as the V 8 car have similar sounds.

This in story writing  comes as the 7 league boots type of story the need for speed and other variations of being able to get some where fast, like the warp drive in space stories.
We all dream and in our dreams we get into all sorts of funny situations and only rarely do we actually remember the actions there.

Being able to write a story that imitates the dreams of any one is  the secret to a great flight of the imagination story.

A dream is remembered only if some thing near the end that helps you to remember the rest of the dream.
If you wake with a start  after dreaming of falling from a height then you may also remember what lead up to the end of the dream.

So in a story the ending should have a twist that will startle or make the rest of the story make sense. This then makes the reader go over the rest of the story in their mind and often allows them to recall most of the story.

The detective story has this twist the correlates all the previous clues to a solution at the end and so the reader wants to read more  of the same.
Sadly it is over done as after I had read one Perry mason the next one was so ho hum the same  as the last one I lost interest in any more stories from the same author.

   So tapping into human instincts and writing them down will make a story interesting and readable and enable the reader to recall most of the story and want more.
So here I am grinning like a Cheshire cat, as mad as a mad hatter and definitely not a sleepy as a door mouse.