Writing a Story

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Writing a Story

• Helpful hints for story writing.

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The Beginning

• The setting where you are now.
• The characters.
• Use adjectives, powerful verbs, adverbs.

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Where do you go to?

• How do you reach your imaginary world?
• - through a door, through a hole in the garden
  fence, in the shed, etc.

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Describe your imaginary world.

• What can you see?
• What can you hear?
• What can you smell?
• What can you feel?
• What can you taste?

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A mythical creature appears.

• Where does the mythical creature appear?
• -Do you hear a rustling in a tree, a noise from
  behind, does it land in front of you?
• What does the mythical creature look like?
• Use adjectives, powerful verbs and adverbs.

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What happens?

• Think of what the creature does.
• Is it nasty?
• Does it chase you?
• Is it friendly?
• Do you help it do
• something?
• Is it hurt?

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What is the complication?

• Does it capture you?
• Does it take you to its
• lair, a cave.
• OR
• Do you meet
• a problem
• when you try
• to help it?

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The Ending.

• How does the problem get solved?
• How do you manage to escape?
• Remember that the reader must KNOW it is the end
  of the story WITHOUT you writing The End.

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Checklist

• Have you remembered
• Capital letters and full stops?
• Powerful adjectives, adverbs and verbs?
• Paragraphs?
• Connectives?
• Exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks?
• New line when someone speaks.
• Keep to the same person I doesnt change to
  he unless there is another character.
• NEAT HANDWRITING.