Can someone give me advise on how to write a good story?

I have always wanted to wriite a story.I started writing one but then I just let it go because I got frustrated and because I had a lot of other stuff to do.So can anyone give me advise on what kind of story I should write ( I will take any topic) and/or how to really focus.Just any kind of advise you have.Can someone give me advise on how to write a good story?
I believe understanding what a story is will help you to write a story. And I think what may have discouraged you was that you really didn't know what your story was about and that is the root of all stories. When we experience a great story, we think, ';that's what life is like';. This is accomplished by creating a meaningful controlling idea that is conveyed by your story's events.





The controlling idea expresses your story's meaning. A single word is not a controlling idea. You can't have a controlling idea about ';love'; or ';politics';. A controlling idea generates itself from your story. As you try to discover your controlling idea, you will also begin to understand the story that you want to tell, that says, ';life is like this!';.





The controlling idea is going to be a sentence that tells us how and why life changes from one condition of existence to another. This change will show up in the climax of the last act of your story.





Crime stories are made up of themes such as: ';Crime pays when people are indifferent to the suffering around them'; or ';Justice triumphs when the protagonist takes the law into his or her own hands';.





The theme (another word for 'controlling idea') of ';Lord of the Rings'; might be ';Freedom prevails when we sacrifice ourselves';. Of course we can find other themes but the controlling idea is a strong one if we can relate it throughout the entire story. For many writers, when they discover their controlling idea, they tape it to their computer and filter everything they write through it. It's an excellent strategy to create an excellent story with a lot of meaning.





So, how do you find your story's Controlling Idea? The controlling idea comes from your character's last action in the story climax. When you look at your ending, ask, ';As a result of this climatic action, what value did your character introduce?'; Then trace that and ask what is the chief cause by which that value came into his or her world? This sentence will become your theme. Your story dictates the meaning in the final climax.





So, how do you find it before you've even written your story? We have to come up with a premise by asking, ';what if...?';





Consider a characters who believes they are full of light, vigor, warmth, and love. What if you place that person into a situation where they have complete power and a powerful reward for abusing it? Will they abuse it? If you play this 'magic if' and begin to outline your story, you can outline until the climax and get a general idea of your theme.





So, by using that idea, let's have a character, let's say a female economics professor, an intelligent woman who minds her own business. But somehow she's in a situation where she has kidnapped another woman for ransom and keeps this woman in her bedroom while running an elaborat plot to extract money from the woman's family. If you explore this story to its conclusion you could find that she 1) let's the woman go free, 2) kills the woman accidently on the way to the ransom exchange!, 3) kills the woman on purpose, 4) gets raided and captured by the police, 5) successfully pulls off the ransom, makes a 100 million dollars, and gets away with it! Explaining how that happens would be fun. But depending on each of these outcomes, we're going to have a different theme. Let's say we take number two as our climax: kills the woman accidently on the way to the drop-off exchange. Our controlling idea (theme) might be ';Greed can strike and bring out the worst in absolutely anyone'; or ';Greed ruins lives when one feeds it'; or ';Compassion is false and can only be disguised';. All of these will take your story in a completely different direction but the process I provided will help you find the controlling idea and then everything you write should be filtered through it, including your cast, your subplots, etc...





Now you have a theme, a premise, the next thing you need is a r setting, it could be anywhere or anything. If it was modern-day, then you could set this on a university campus. These two women could have known each other or not -- maybe she was the professor's secretary. Or you could set this in space and they're both different alien species. Or you could make one Elf and the other Beast and set it in Middle Earth. The setting accentuates your story but it's the controlling idea which makes it powerful and deeply meaningful.





This is also where you'll find that you actually have something to say about life.





There's a lot more to writing but I think that this general idea about what stories accomplish for us will help you to find a story where you'll actually have something to say and want to write it.Can someone give me advise on how to write a good story?
think of a story like lil red riding hood spice it up little bit
always go for the truth. you can never go wrong there. change the names re write the story make it intresting, make it the way you wish it had been.
#1: PRACTICE!!!





Sounds silly, but start at the beginning, proceed to the middle and end up at the end.





Also, writing from experience at first helps immensely: start small and write about something you remember doing a year or two ago. Then write more and more about things further back. Then try adding fiction to all the ones you wrote.





Keep a daily journal in which you describe at least ONE thing that happened in great detail - where people were standing, what they wore, how they reacted to something - even if it is boring.





Good stories don't get written overnight. Some authors write for ten years on a novel.





Best of luck! Writing can be a rewarding and fun thing to do!
Keep your reader in mind. If you want it to be readable and enjoyable, you have to think of who will be reading/enjoying it. Often times the ending is the hardest part, so perhaps thinking of a theme...';what's the point';...first might help. That way you know where you are going while you write.





I would definately say that making a roadmap ahead of time of characters, settings, moods, etc. is a good thing. Then you can follow it as you go. But don't be afraid to go off into uncharted territory if the story takes you there.





#1 rule of writing...don't be a afraid to edit yourself. If you make a beautiful passage that doesn't quite fit in this story, it has to go...save it fro some other story later.
You must first find a target audience that you want to relate the story to. Not everyone and every age group is going to like a specific story. After you decide that...let your imagination run wild!
i tried so many times to write a book, but failed. but my short stories are pretty good. i guess the best advice i can give is to write about something you've experienced or know a lot about because the ideas will come easier. also, jot down all the funny, interesting or impacting things that you hear. you never know, you just might want to put them in your story.
focus on the humans in the story, but make it so that the story can only take place in its partucular setting.