Determining the Protagonist
how to write a short story
After you've written basic stories, try to re-read what you've written. Do not always care about your mistakes in the writing.
Or,
You feel proud of your work, and may even feel embarrassed by the basic writing that you have written, ignore it all!
Now focus first and notice from your writing, who roughly actor protagonist in your writing is. Search and try to find the protagonist.
Now you start thinking about the protagonist in your writing. It's both interesting and complicated.
You could be a protagonist, if the story you write about the incident that happened to you. Or maybe your friend and whoever it is.
The protagonist in your basic writing is not necessarily a narrator, or he is always a "good person" in the story. Conversely, the protagonist is the one who can make decisions that encourage the story to be exciting.
Usually, to know the protagonist is to find one character that gives a lot of meaning to the story.
One more thing, when you have found the protagonist, then you will be more flexible and have more ideas to improve your basic writing earlier.