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Writing a Story

Writing a Story. Helpful hints for story writing. The Beginning. The setting – where you are now. The characters. Use adjectives, powerful verbs, adverbs. 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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Writing a Story

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  1. Writing a Story Helpful hints for story writing.

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

  3. 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.

  4. Describe your imaginary world. • What can you see? • What can you hear? • What can you smell? • What can you feel? • What can you taste?

  5. 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.

  6. 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?

  7. 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?

  8. 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.”

  9. 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 doesn’t change to “he” unless there is another character. • NEAT HANDWRITING.

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