Fictional writing often is produced as a story meant to entertain or convey an author's point of view.
Different types of authors practice fictional writing, including novelists, playwrights, short story writers, radio dramatists and screenwriters.
They are works that offer social commentary, or political criticism, or focus on an aspect of the human condition.
A character is a participant in the story, and is usually a person, but may be any persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a fictional work or performance.
Style includes the multitude of choices fiction writers make, consciously or not, in the process of writing a story.
For each piece of fiction, the author makes many choices, consciously or subconsciously, which combine to form the writer's unique style.
The components of style are numerous, but include point of view, choice of narrator, fiction-writing mode, person and tense, grammar, punctuation, word usage, sentence length and structure, paragraph length and structure, tone, imagery, chapter usage, and title selection.
[3] The tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
[4][5] Suspension of disbelief is the reader's temporary acceptance of story elements as believable, regardless of how implausible they may seem in real life.
"[6][page needed] Stephen King, in his non-fiction, part autobiographical, part self-help writing memoir, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, he gives readers advice on honing their craft: "Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.