A Treatise on 'STORY'

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Prologue: “Here is an attempt at explaining the rules governing a Story and a brief study if not detailed on its aspects.”

If one was to define a Story and required a layman’s one page guide here goes.

A Story is a simple, almost cost free of conveying a message or rather presenting a certain collection of events in a manner as to provide a collective approach to a certain goal otherwise called climax.

To explain it in a school based method, the main elements of a Story are

S-Structure

T-Time

O-Order

R-Relish

Y-You

A story is a multidimensional element. With the ever perpetual and flowing aspect of time, a story is described and woven intricately along the lines of the flow in such a manner than once the aspect of time and space is removed, the story ceases to exist.

A story is generally placed as a sequence of events that flow forward backward or are displayed as varied pieces of puzzles that can be fit together in a manner as pleasing by the reader's mind but majorly dictated by the written matter.

A story when read generally is sensed by the higher areas of the brain and the readers mind creating a visual space accessed only by the reader's mind portrayed in a way such that though the context and the content of the surroundings are defined by the words, the description and magnanimity are entirely left to the reader.

Much like an inception as described by Christopher Nolan.

Feel is another dimension. As the theme being described by the writer is placed in a reader friendly mind space, the story can have a lasting effect only when the events being described affect the higher intelligence of the brain being emotion, sentiment and bonding with the theme of the story.

Alongside the events being described, the manner in which they are revealed to the reader also has a huge impact. Plots, twists and story turns reveal a certain style of writing and decide the acceptance of story as a piece of work by the reader.

Language also adds its own beauty to the story structure and expression. Use of a proper adage in the right weight can lever the story to different heights of beauty and perception.

A story's success depends heavily on the easiness with which a person can empathize or relate to the events or the effect of the events over the antagonist.

In short, a Story is similar to the domino effect. It is necessary that along with the trigger, the path of flow is properly constructed so as to orchestrate a perfect fall. A single misplaced piece can jeopardize the whole layout depending on its angularity creating in chaos or in an inability to comprehend.

Thus the effect a story has on its reader is similar to that of a cascading fall of dominoes. After progressing to the final piece, the story’s last line, it will be clear whether the final impact of a long scripted tale has taken its toll on the minds of the reader.