When writing a story the crucial parts are the who, what, when, and where. You have to find these basic facts with sources before you can even begin writing a story. After gathering these, you have to decide which facts are intersting and where in the story you want to put them, whether you put them in the lead or in the body.
Deciding which facts to use is probably the challenging part. Prof. Follis said in class today that if you write a 1,200 word story, you will most likely only be using 300 of those words.
To overcome this challenge, you just need to think about what the reader will be interested in or use the seven news values which are: conflict, timeliness, prominence, proximity, oddity, impact, and human interest.
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