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Make sure to tap into the characters feelings a lot!. Make the readers feel what the characters are!. Make them feel like they ARE the characters!. Than they'll want to keep turning pages because it'll be like the disaster happening to them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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One "rule" or trend I noticed!. The focus is only ever on the disaster when you use a lot view points, whether the disaster is a fire, an alien intervention, or a plague!. If the view point is one person, the focus is usually just on that person and the natural disaster is just the Deus Ex Machina in the person's story, either a good place for an epiphany or a way to wind up the story!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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If you are going to write a story, because I have been in a distaster of various kinds; I can help!.

Think about a time to which you may have nearly died, or something very frightening happened to you!.
It could be anything!.

Remember the fear that you expierenced, and the feeling of desperation and lack of control; the paradoxical nature of knowing that you have *got* to get out, but yet you can't!.
The impending doom as it gets inevitabily closer!.

This is the sort of thing that I am sure would capture an audience!.

For example!.!.!.
The house is on fire, but I am trapped!. If I don't get out now, I will have to die and feel on my skin being burned off and the unimaginable pain from having to expierence it, it will be like in the movies in Terminator 2 when that woman burns in the nuclear blast at the fence!.
I have no option but to escape, but how do I ensure!.
I have no option of having my option of escaping taken away, because of how much it will sting!.
Help! Help! Help!
Feel the panic inside and feel your heart race!.
Feel the tingling up and down your body as you go dizzy hyperventilating and your too weak to move because your exhausted from your panicing and you can't get away quick enough!.
Imagine knowing it is fate that this is how you will die!.

That is the way to make a disaster story!.

http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=YzqrdANIj!.!.!.
Imagine knowing there is no way out of suffering this for all eternity!.

Snow ManWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket!.
I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'!.

First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass!.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like!?
Hmmmmm this might be alright!.

But wait I hear there're prissy, wine all that
Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat!?
I don't think sow
I'll see when I get there
I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain't trying to get arrested
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel AirWww@QuestionHome@Com

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describe sounds, smells, and expressions in unexpectedly relatable ways!. make everything sound a little bit twisted!. try to suck your writers in by any means!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Good, strong characters that we care aboutWww@QuestionHome@Com

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