What Makes a Good Everyday Life Story?
The goal of any story is to make the reader feel like they are living the lives of the characters.
Everyday life stories are all about making the reader feel like they are part of a story or living an experience. They range from narrating a person’s life through their eyes to encapsulating an event in a single sentence.
Everyday life stories should also tell a good and interesting story and be relatable and realistic.
Living Through Another Person’s Eyes
One of the main reasons why people choose to share their life stories is because they want people around them to sympathize and understand. They want people who read about their life experiences to feel more connected and understanding of them as a person. This drives many individuals to write down their thoughts, feelings, and experience in words for others so that they will be able to see the world through their eyes.
Narration
Narrative has been around as a style of writing since the beginning of time. In its most basic form, it’s a story told as a sequence of scenes with dialogue and other information about characters, objects, and settings.
Narrative is not just limited to fiction writing. It can also be used in other kinds of texts such as tweets or blog posts about everyday life.
There are many ways that narrative can be used in everyday life stories. Some examples include first-person narration, sociological narratives, or even articles like self-help articles or education articles that use an author’s personal experience to help the reader understand something difficult about their own life.
Encapsulating an Event
A major part of sharing your life story is making sure that it has an interesting twist — something that you will find relatable to other people. The best way to do this is by finding out what events are popular topics for everyday life stories and focus on those events first.
When an event happens, you don’t need to retell the whole story. You just need to tell your readers what happened that day, or what led up to that particular event. This is called encapsulating the event.
An example of this is the story of a young woman who discovers her husband has been cheating on her. She spends the whole day with him, trying to get him to confess what he’s done so she can see if he still loves her or not. She finally gets him drunk and he tells her that he wants a divorce. The next morning she wakes up and realizes it was all a dream.
Telling an Interesting Story
Every day, people see or experience something interesting that they can share with their friends or family. The problem is that they usually think these things are not interesting enough to share. People also decide to share things that are completely uninteresting.
Something worth sharing has to be both relatable and realistic.
Relatable
People find stories relatable when they feel like they’ve been through the same struggles as the protagonist or that they can relate to what the protagonist is going through.
To make your stories relatable, you need to first understand and grasp what it’s like for your readers. This is done by interviewing people or observing their daily lives.
Realistic
There are many stories that we like to read in the media and books, but most of them do not represent reality. They lack authenticity and authenticity is what we need when we read.
People love reading articles that are written by people who are able to keep their writing style light but convey deep thoughts in a way that makes them think about the story for hours after they read it.
A good everyday life story is one that is filled with joy, love, and hope. Good stories like these give us a chance to relate to someone else with our everyday lives and see things from a different perspective.
