What Story Writers Do
Brainstorm ideas
- Think of different things you have seen or heard at different times during the week.
(at school, in a restaurant, at a family dinner or party, extra curricular)
Think about the words you use.
- Use your imagination and creativity to describe a whole new world, new people, and have fun doing it.
Will your character have to; find, save, go? This is the reason for the adventure.
- Think about what you did as a reader and make sure that the people who read your story are able to;
- Make a prediction
-See your words as a movie in their heads
-Be detectives and find the messages and meanings you put in your story that you want them to find
-Make connections
Brainstorm ideas
- Take 5 minutes or more and write down all the ideas that pop into your head
- Think of different things you have seen or heard at different times during the week.
(at school, in a restaurant, at a family dinner or party, extra curricular)
- Choose one of your ideas as the topic for your story
- Make an idea wheel to organize your ideas.
Think about the words you use.
- Use your imagination and creativity to describe a whole new world, new people, and have fun doing it.
- Beginning: Introduce your setting, character at the start. you want to build feelings for your reader.
Will your character have to; find, save, go? This is the reason for the adventure.
- Middle: Start the adventure. Meet new characters, conflict, villain?
- End: Resolution. How will your story end. Any lesson to learn?
- Think about what you did as a reader and make sure that the people who read your story are able to;
- Make a prediction
-See your words as a movie in their heads
-Be detectives and find the messages and meanings you put in your story that you want them to find
-Make connections