How to Write a Story. Again, How to Write a Story

    How to write a story: Start with a couple characters, show how they interact, show how their interaction impact each other and other people, develop ideas through the relationships that happen within the story. 

    Scratch that, how to write a story: Make a plot line with one or multiple characters as the leading perspective and then chart and track their relationships with other people, themes, and ideas - which creates a message to employ to the reader. 

    One more time, how to write a story: Do everything and anything to make it both as entertaining as possible and as long as possible, regardless of the "message" or "theme".