What is Story?

Jerry Cleaver writes in Immediate Fiction, that story is a heightened sense of reality.

Concentrated with the essence of reality, those essentials that render it authentic, and plausible through character descriptions and the crafted context, story is not reality as we know it.

Human life and living contain many mundane moments that lack drama and excitement. This is why we read, among other causes.

A well-crafted story does not contain boring scenes. It cannot, or else the reader will close the book and not return.

Thus a story is a sequence of scenes that contain dramatic moments linked by a common cause, that of the major character attempting to achieve her or his goal.

This goal may involve ascertaining a certain physical, object or avoiding an unpleasant person or experience. The quest may involve a myriad of possibilities.

Whatever the case the writer, to entertain and engage the reader, must craft and include scenes depicting life not as it always occurs, but rather, as we, the readers experience it on those most special, and extraordinary days.

Can you remember a book, or story that you started, and never finished?

Excluding life circumstances that called you away, why did you not finish the book?

Please share.