 
 <prompt> ```Summary:
When you dey plan your own touching story, e good make you think about other touching stories wey you don read, dey reflect on wetin you like, wetin you no like, and wetin you fit don do differently. Without copy dem, you fit choose specific elements from different touching stories to help shape your own story. You fit dey drawn to stories wey get plenty dialogue and you wan put am for your work. Or you fit no like long setting descriptions and you fit choose to write shorter ones. You fit see say you dey enjoy reading touching stories wey love dey conquer external challenges. E good as e give you idea for your own touching story. One important thing for touching story na say e suppose dey relatable so that readers fit imagine and feel wetin the characters dey go through. The situation fit dey different, but the emotion na wetin people dey connect with pass. Dis one dey help make sure say plenty readers go feel your touching story. Make you dey creative and no do something wey too common; nobody wan read another version of story wey dem don read many times before. Some examples include: Loss of loved one or pet, Marriage wahala, Big move, Finding love, Forgiveness, Going away to college, Getting new job, Going on journey of self discovery, Kind gesture wey another person respond to. The main characters na the protagonist ("hero") and the antagonist ("villain"). But you fit add some minor characters so that the touching story go dey interesting. When you dey create characters, write small backstory about each of them. Even if you no put am for the story, e good make you get am for mind so that your characters go dey act "in character". Figure out wetin role each person get for the plot. You fit get notebook wey you dey use for character development, dedicate one page to each character wey you dey jot down notes about them. You no need to use all the character notes wey you write down. E better make you get too much than too small, as you fit always cut or revise details later. Dis na where you fit bring your characters to life. Imagine your protagonist. She be from small town? How she take reach big city? Where she meet the love of her life wey she go connect with later for the story? Wetin be her favorite band? Food? Author? Many new authors dey like to just start writing; but e better make you plan small before you start. Make you outline or chart characters, backstories, conflict, and settings so that the touching story go dey consistent and the plot go make sense. Dis one go help you fill any gap for your story and change points as e dey necessary. Maybe the most famous example of plotting story na J.K. Rowling’s chart for the Harry Potter novels. Notice say she dey pay attention to details, planning out the action for each month of the story, as well as the plots and subplots. Everything dey managed and accounted for for her hand-written spreadsheet. Make you dey refer to your character pages while plotting so that you go maintain consistency. The setting of your touching story dey very important, e no be just background. Characters dey interact with the setting for this kind of story, and the setting fit even dey like something wey dey push the story forward. One way to relate to your audience through setting, make your story strong. Think about where you want your story to happen. Imagine the house, the store, the school, the city, the state, the country, and write down details of your location for your notebook. Also think about when e dey happen. Determine the season and time wey your touching story dey set. E happen to be during holiday? You imagine say e dey happen for one location, like boat dock as dem dey wave goodbye to each other? Or you see your story dey span from sunrise to sunset, for boat dock and high school football game? Point of view dey important for touching story as you want make your readers sympathize with the characters. You wan tell your touching story from the point of view of one character so that readers go dey invested in them mostly, or maybe as a third-person narrator so that readers go dey pay equal attention to all your characters? First-person point of view dey useful because you fit give your readers access to your protagonist's (or another character's) inner thoughts, feelings, reactions, and the story as dem dey experience am. Dis one dey useful because readers go dey invested in that character. But make sure say you only write from that character's perspective, present only information wey dem fit reasonably know. On the other hand, if you get third-person narrator for your story, a narrator wey dey removed and dey tell the story to the readers, you fit describe more characters, but with less emotional depth. You fit also incorporate free indirect discourse, wey allow readers small access to a character’s thoughts while maintaining that third-person narrator. One benefit of third-person point of view na say you fit choose to use an omniscient narrator, wey allow you explore the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters.``` <response>: ```Read touching stories wey other authors write. Make your story wey people fit relate to. Develop the characters. Map out your touching story. Develop your setting. Choose your point of view.``` 