factors involved in story writing

1. Writer is also one humble, curious and unbiased observer of synergy and synthesis, either occurring as an aspect of evolution or consciously
effected through a culture of compassion, that enable to understand better the inter connectivity, interrelatedness and interdependence of living as a
whole . A writer has to read and learn constantly. How they do these two impact enormously their writing.
Story writing has these hidden elements
One can weave or build short or long stories on any subject
or topic.
Just follow five elements principle.
Grasp just some part of the subject solidly like - EARTH
Let one’s thoughts and expressions to flow like fluid -
WATER
When one want one’s version to glow and put down others'
versions let that be aggressive and vocal - FIRE
When one want everyone’s curiosity and expectations
floating inject gas - AIR
Hook others minds and fill them with interest in what one
intends to convey and thus occupy - SPACE
Then one can take one’s own TIME as well by making one
to read through and weave more patterns made of various
perspectives and interpretations .
Stories -the design and development
Every story can be defined narrowly through 10 Ps
The ten Ps are:-
1. Plot,
2. Personalities [characters],
3. Place [context, situation, settings etc.],
4. Philosophy [the main theme or idea or concept that story tries to relate to /reveal
to us],
5. Phrases [the words, expressions and language used to communicate these],
6. Pertinent theme/topic [projection of ideas/thoughts etc. through a theme],
7. Projection of symbol [symbolically project something to ensure that the very
symbol rings a bell in the mind about everything discussed above – for example
Krishna on Chariot],
8. Predominant genre [classification according to domain of activity either based
on human feelings/emotions or social/environmental/religious/ cultural concerns
traditionally sometimes classified as comedy, romance, fiction, science, motivational
etc.],
9. Providing imagination [ blank reality or blunt facts are boring after sometime so
spice it up with imagination which manifests either artistically or as master pieces of
confirmation bias or tools to perpetuate certain prejudices],
10. Positioning of power as perceived [as victor/winner/achiever etc. in terms of
personality or victory of a way of life/philosophy/idea etc.
Ultimate reality or truth is as Eric Micha’el Leventhal says, “You
are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.” and as
Danielle Orner says, “Writing is a dangerous profession. There is
no telling what hole you may rip in society’s carefully woven
master narrative.”

2. Our perception by itself is feeble because
of certain inherent but inevitable aspects of
our mental abilities and approaches. “It is
not often our perception but the scale of
observation and frames of reference which
create the phenomenon. The scale of
observation depends on man; it is he who
creates it. In nature, different scales of
observation do not exist. There is only one
immense, harmonious phenomenon on a
scale which, in general, escapes man. The
structure of man's brain necessitates
dividing into arbitrary compartments and
cutting up into isolated pieces. With the aid
of several instruments science creates more
phantasmagoria: "on our scale of human
observation, as pointed out before, the edge
of a razor-blade is a continuous line. On the
microscopic scale, it is a broken but solid
line. On the chemic scale we have atoms of
iron and carbon. On the sub-atomic scale
we have electrons in perpetual motion
which travel at the rate of several thousand
miles per second. All these phenomena are
in reality the manifestations of the same
basic phenomenon, the motions of the
electrons. The only difference which exists
between them is the scale of observation"
[Human Destiny, Lecomte du Nuoy.
Milton Friedman said, “One of the great mistakes is to judge
policies and programs by their [ presumed-italics mine] intentions
rather than their results”. In social/political and economic
development oriented activities Jane Davidson explains, “how
important it is to combine a mix of qualitative and quantitative data
with "relevant values" (such as needs) to draw explicitly evaluative
conclusions” in his book ‘Evaluation Methodology Basics: The Nuts
and Bolts of Sound Evaluation’. That’s why even great research
works on evaluation like the bulky ‘Evaluation: A Systematic
Approach‘ by Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Howard E.
Freeman first published get such reviews like ‘There is never any
clear instruction about how one should begin an evaluation or how
one should proceed’. The most comprehensive book on evaluations ‘
Making Evaluation Matter-a practical guide for evaluators’by Cecile
Kusters with Simone van Vugt, Seerp Wigboldus, Bob Williams and
Jim Woodhill also emphasizes certain factors repeatedly and
predominantly they are context/situation, situational responsiveness,
stake holders, inherent qualities of the project /program/person being
evaluated ,multiple roles, consequence awareness etc. Messick, S.
(1994). Writes in The Interplay of Evidence and Consequences in the
Validation of Performance Assessments. Educational Researcher,
23(2), 13–23, “Validity, reliability, comparability, and fairness are not
just measurement issues, but social values that have meaning and
force outside of measurement wherever evaluative judgments and
decisions are made”.
Projection of pertinent Data- its analysis, usage and
interpretation
Data in various forms and formats though is available aplenty
we can spoil it through how we interpret it or selectively twist
and apply it out of context.
Data is a very vital and extremely useful tool for many
purposes; I repeat many purposes because it gets its strength
from its contributory utility. These trends of worshiping data
are all the result of conclusions arrived at due to the ecstasy
of revelations of research into reverse engineering.
Tweaking anything and everything to create something new
or come out with some modified version of some existing
thing is both interesting and easiest way to unleash the human
creative instinct and also draw certain conclusions, but all
these have a saturation point. Even in natural evolution
certain designs are adopted others discarded based on the
adaptive utility of a particular organ at a particular place and
period.
While a large volume of data can throw up lot of ideas it
cannot interpret or suggest proper utilization of those ideas,
it cannot do the thinking beyond a certain extent and besides
a specified path of predefined command, it cannot initiate or
ensure to either enhance understanding or can even restrict
frames of reference for understanding and it cannot provide
the wisdom to choose, which comes with the churning that
life undergoes chronologically in the form of experience.
While judging and exploring the facts we must desist getting
distracted from the following major traps:-
1] Mutilating the facts, 2] Analysing them with preconceived
notions or prejudices, 3] Generalizing the particular and
particularizing the general, 4] Approaching facts with
unloving criticism or uncritical love, 5] Evaluating facts with
our pet isms or philosophies, 6] Resorting to statistical
justifications, 7] Unleashing unworkable utopia, 8] Mask
them with logical fallacies, 9] Bury them in pleasant jargons,
and 10] Give historical justifications.
The three Ps that influence or impact or by which everything is influenced or impacted are:-
Perception Proper evaluation
Projection of pertinent Data

3. Why writers repeat their ideas and refer to their own works
Writers feel the love of thoughts and ideas and manifest their romance through the way they use the language or weave a story or a narrative.
It is inevitable that their love pops out often.
Only those who review or evaluate or criticize or analyse any writing mention as author reusing his/ her own aphorisms or repeating himself/
herself and so on.
It is not confined to a few authors. I have noticed this aphorisms in many authors because they ( aphorisms) convey authors' passion filled renewed
romance with certain thoughts, opinions , ideas, reasons, emotions, reactions etc. ( in some cases strong prejudices) which are internalized not as
vague pr​e​mise or hypothesis but as some well grasped, deeply felt, clearly understood, conviction filled, fully crystalized concepts, ideologies,
philosophies.
These are then ensconced in the safe soft corners of sub consciousness and may have some consistency.
They pop up often, even in pure fictions. Incidentally, very often a writer prefers to refer to his/her own previous works or may automatically use
similar or same expressions to convey specific ideas that will be made to be communicated through specific characters or topics.
Ideas, stories, the way language is used, the way a reader understands them are all interrelated and interconnected like the various parts of a fruit
like kernel, nut, pulp and skin.
Which enhances the ‘what​s​' and the ‘how​s​' are subjective and this is the case even in epics and historical narratives.
Which one compliments what and who knows it? Is it the story of Mahabharata or the 700 verses of Bhagawad Geetha?
Stories are required for impact and thoughts and ideas for internalizing as reference manual.
Every product needs a good packing and every container becomes relevant and gets its value only based on its content.

4. For a thinker and thinking writer there is an inherent need to listen to, to read, to learn, to follow ideas, to generate ideas, to internalize the wisdom that one learns from
others and also to write one’s own reactions or perceptions.
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self"- Cyril Connolly
The following quotes flashed across my mind and I replied to him in a jiffy, of course some of the quotes are obsessively struck in my bone marrow like the last seven quotes.
Starting with a very haughty quote of Tom Stoppard, “My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers” , and meandering through the
following.
1. There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.-Reinhold
Niebuhr
2. “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History
3. Write close to the bone, write until you’re not thinking in words anymore -Bonnie Friedman
4. Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. You should know more than what you put on the page. The reader can sense that. SUSAN ORLEAN
6. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ― Maya Angelou
7. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.~Ansel Adams
8. “Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ¬people. Nothing that happens to a writer–however happy, however tragic–is ever wasted.” -P.D. James
9. Just trust your own voice. And keep exploring the things that are interesting to you. Nikki GIOVANNI
10. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. FRAN LEBOWITZ
11. If you really want this writing life, don't ever give up Bill Bibo, Jr
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself. CONROY
12. You are your own stories, free to imagine and experience what it means to be human without fear-T. Morrison
13. I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. ~Simone de Beauvoir
14. You never know what you will learn ’til you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ANITA BROOKNER
15. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something. JOHN IRVING
16. A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. Gerard de Marigny
17. Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire-A. Rich
18. "The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." - Swami Chinmayananda
19. “In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
20. “We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it”-Timothy Ferris
21. “There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies”-Robert Brault
22. “Evolution itself is an open ended and indeterminate process”… “Given the remarkable progress in our understanding of biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution as a
whole … we have failed to develop concepts, ideas, even a language that could capture the dance of this life” - Guy Murchie
23. “Humans have a need for a stable frame of reference. Religion apparently fills this need. In effect, humans crave answers to questions that no other source of knowledge has an
answer to, which only religion may seem to answer. However, a sense of free will must be given in order for religion to appear healthy. An authoritarian notion of religion appears
detrimental.”- Erich Fromm,
24. विद्या ददावि विनयं विनयाद्यावि पात्रिाम् । पात्रत्वाद्धनमाप्नोवि धनाद्धमं ििः सुखम् ॥ ५ ॥ vidyA dadAti vinayaM, vinayAdyAti pAtratAM |
pAtratvAddhanamApnoti, dhanAddharmaMtataH sukhaM || 5 || (true/complete) knowledge gives discipline[humility], from discipline [humility] comes
worthiness, from worthiness one gets wealth, from wealth (one does) good deeds, from that (comes) joy. This particular quote is an outer shell of the egg
which contains these:-
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5. Evolution of civilization as well as sophistication of civilized evolution both depend on adaptation, adjustments, accommodation and
assimilation of multiple ways of life and valuing the variety and virtue of variety passed onto us down the ages through various mediums, the
first most effective and, perhaps the chief among them being books which recorded the sounds, spoken words, thoughts, ideas and events. Both our
individual self and social self are to a large extent shaped by how we relate with others, things and our overall circumstances and how our contexts
relate with us.
Life is after all not mere chronology of existence but a meaningful topology of relationships.
Life is not confined to and carried on within the matrix of mind and matter but it creatively works through communicating the connectivity
between these two and how these two relate with everyone and everything.
Actually more number of people read more topics on various platforms starting from print media like newspapers, pamphlets, text books,
books of various genres to heavy reading through electronic media in the form of mails, social media messages, E-books etc. But then, what has to
be known really is What they read? Why they read? How they read? How they use or benefit from what they read? How much they read?
The answer to the above questions will provide information that may enable us to know about the interests and intentions;
to understand the influence and impact; to grasp the intrinsic importance; to interpret the importance of intrinsic values;
to entertain with imaginations; to indoctrinate through injecting sensational ideas and sensitive and biased judgmental opinions ; gradually to
educate everyone to evaluate [with contextual relevance] the utility or futility of all that is being read; to discern
to observe intelligently; to achieve academic excellence ; to learn and to internalize great ideas and instructions; to expand the spectrum of
our conscious awareness wider to perceive with philosophical perspective; to peruse everything with proper measurements and finally to
enlighten us to engage in creating in a scholarly, scientific and sane way with a sense of responsibility and sense of balance the sources of
synergy through creative and effective communication.
Certain terms have been underlined and rendered in bold letters [almost as a wordle] because they are in fact the preferred and prioritized
outcomes of most readings and book centric learning.
We all must humbly accept that we learnt some or all of the above underlined aspects; or still in the process of learning or perfecting or enhancing
the quality and quantity of what we have already learnt.

6. It was mostly through our reading them in books or listening to and learning from those who have read and passed them on.
Learning is a lifelong process.
So, as Dani Johnson says, “Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything.”
Inquisitiveness and inquiry are the eternal springs of human psyche and it is through this stream that flows from the springs that traces of
ignorance are washed away one by one, as Phenella writes in “The Unwritten Comedy”.
“To be ignorant of many things is expected
To know you are ignorant of many things is the beginning of wisdom.
To know a category of things of which you are ignorant is the beginning of learning.
To know the details of that category of things of which you are ignorant is to no longer be ignorant.”
Can anyone ever claim comprehensive comprehension with clarity on any issue considering that there are multiple possible factors to be
considered with many frames of references, all of which in turn get churned up in the cauldrons of concomitant contextual relevance and the
interactions of inherent attributes of the issues, events or things and evaluated along with the kirn-staff or churning stick of individual's
interpretation based on his or her attitude and perspective.
I sometimes wonder on what basis mortal human beings use such terms like always ( probably a convenient synonym for in 'most circumstances
presumably'); how come a temporary life span and limitations of knowledge talk of ' absolute' ( probably indicating most likely according to the
narrator); everything ( probably the range of things one construes to be complete) and so on.
Human intellect can churn, scrutinize, evaluate, criticize and keep on drilling deeper or mentally go on scratching like it does to an itching
sensation physically. But then ultimately humility must accept that whatever the individual human mind or the collection of ideas are all capable
of deciphering, discerning and articulating is merely a particular facet or some facets of the sparkling splendour called life.

7. Ultimately humility must accept that whatever the individual human mind or the collection of ideas are all capable of deciphering, discerning and
articulating is merely a particular facet or some facets of the sparkling splendour called life. Slowly and surely emerging inevitable trends and
terms of life may have to necessarily become comprehensive and more inclusive. Besides, certain aspects of all the following domains economics,
religions, castes, races, and politics may be required to either totally shed or reduce the degree of intensity with which those aspects are insisted
upon or enforced. This is required as an inevitable process of sophistication or progressive civilization enabling happy and peaceful cohabitation of
human beings and other species. While the emphasis is on reading, we must factor in the fact that the maximum reading is done for academic
purposes or in the form of reports through newspapers, magazines and many other social networks. However, besides and beyond these, the
charming serious book reading is a very limited percentage. So, it is imperative on the narrators who script the narratives in media to desist from
the following:-
Myth making; hero-worship; citing exceptions as examples and make sweeping statements based on that; over generalizing the particular;
particularizing the general; over simplifying the complex; complicating the simple; resorting to unloving criticism and uncritical love; projecting
poverty and suffering as the important requirements to get god’s grace; evaluating anything or anyone with irrelevant aspects; quoting and
questioning things without contextual relevance; proceeding with justifications to bolster up or brush aside facts; paralyzing simple events with
unwarranted and perverted analysis; forging for facts to fit into preconceptions; showing intolerance towards dissent; invent intentions when
results are good and useful; pandering to populism and political correctness over providing long term prosperity; making desperate attempts to
degrade some and deify others; opposing for the sake of opposing; rejecting reasoning; operating with selective amnesia and collective
indifference; trying to mask present short comings by raking up past glories and gloat with ethnocentric pride; sit on judgment over everything
and everyone without trying to know in detail what we are judging ; generously throwing opinions around even without doing some homework on
any issue, diverting attention from intrinsically important issues by projecting emotionally appealing allegations, twisting facts, total indifference
to facts and so on have all become such a huge carapace covering the present generation that no one can know what is the real character of this
generation of media narrators.
However, these media worthies dominate the discourse with their self-appropriated label of liberal, intellectual and so on to spread viruses that
affect the socio- psychological perceptions. The prime reason for most of these ugly trends are because people are overwhelmingly negatively
influenced by media houses both in the print and audio visual which churns out heroes out of zeroes and in some cases the glamorous reel industry
dominates over and sometimes replaces the reality.

8. These worthies in the media are mostly guided by some petrified ideological fixations which they extrapolate on almost every
aspect of life –which are constantly changing and moving as opposed to those petrified ideologies.
These petrified ideologies are bolstered by some putrefied slogans and outdated statistics coupled with puerile predicaments and
sustained by pelf that pours into their purses, propelled by pseudo intellectualism and all of these masquerading as meaningful
concern for the public. These media worthy pawns are moved around to manipulate, mislead and micro manage remotely all
domains by multiple forces.
Most unfortunate impact of the manifestation of these attitudes is that many gullible youths apply most of these indiscriminately
across the whole spectrum of human activities like in political domain, religious activities, social issues, cultural institutions,
sports arena, economic development projects, commercial sector etc. Outside the narrow whirlpools of mass media that
unfortunately, form major part of the reading population, there is a vast store house of literary works covering a wide range of
topics.
There are literary works that prompt our philosophical inquiry; some that appeal to our emotions; some that soak us in sentimental
stuff; some that hold us with suspense; some that unfold wisdom; some that trigger our adrenal; some that make us to contemplate;
some provide certain templates to certain issues; some just take us into an island of imagination; some that sink us into the world
of intense thinking; some that appeal to our aesthetic senses and cultural sensitivities and so on.
But there are certain books that somehow provide combination of all these because such works contain both a semi biographical
narration and the biographer’s personal reactions, observations and an unquenchable thirst to find reasons and an urge to find
logical meaning for all that happens in life and not an outpouring of hysterical frustrations or decadent desperation especially from
someone who cannot afford to perch on the ivory tower of dispassionate indifference and engage in emotion-free debates.

9. Why we need to continue to read because we, as well as our rational and scientific intellectual perceptions, are still in the process of evolution
and therefore we do not know yet either the total scope of their capacity or the extent of their shortcomings to deal with many issues of life in
general. This is the very beauty or element of the mystery or part of the unknown, not unknowable, aspects of life that sustain our everlasting
processes of search, interest and scientific and philosophical inquiry and expand our understanding of many aspects of life and enhance the
evolutionary emancipation of mental faculties.
The beauty of life consists in the unknowns and the unending searches and researches –the unending process of evolutionary trends in
everything.
Growing up and growing out of certain things are natural process of evolutionary metamorphosis both biologically and psychologically.
Life is functionally a dynamic energy; visually a multi -faceted splendour; in reality a marvellous mystery which unfolds itself through each
and every one of us at every moment and so on. Therefore life cannot be either generalized in any manner or simplified into any predefined
categories.
Life continues to evolve in its dynamic energy every moment and constantly throws up challenges of varying degrees and intensities, in
different dimensions and at unexpected intervals.
So, constant reading of content with good substance to learn about new horizons is imperative and interesting.
Whereas, merely reading through what is dished out by media houses may not enlighten us.
MEDIA as an acronym now may be defined nowadays as:-
Mask as master of
Everything;
Desultory deception of
Involvement to inform
All about everything.
Marya Mannea has prescribed to media a great message long back, “It is not enough to show people how to live better;
there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better ".
Of course, even this can be done only where the people want to become and be better.