What Makes a Good Story

I am in group 2 and this is what we come up with.

1. Imagination: Being creative makes it more interesting to read, and more engaging.
2. Use of Language: proper grammar, and use of vocabulary to expand the readers knowledge.
3. Personal Experience: There's a truth behind the story.
4. Relatable: The reader can personally relate to the story or characters.
5. Details: Have enough descriptions to allow the reader to picture what is happening.
6. Topic: Stick to the topic and don't ramble about other things.
7. Pace: How fast the story moves shouldn't be to fast or to slow.
8. Special: a one of a kind story is more fun to read because you don't feel like you have read it before.
9. Pictures: make stories more fun, and easier to picture what the author is trying to describe.
10. Mystery: don't make the topic be extremely obvious. allow the reader to actually think about it and try to figure things out for themselves.
11. Introduction: Needs to catch your attention and make you want to keep reading to find out what happens.
12. Don't be repetitive: don't keep saying the same things over  and over again in different ways.
13. Ending: don't leave the reader hanging unless there is another book that follows it.
14. Emotion: The ability to connect to the emotions of what is happening.
15. Benefit: Learning a lesson from the story even if it is just creative fiction.
16. Write for the audience: if the story is for a younger audience it should be simpler, and for an older audience it could be more complex.