Monday, 5 November 2012

Ingredients for a good story


Ingredients for a good story

Plan your story on paper. Think who is it about? What is going to happen in the end? What exciting and interesting things will happen along the way?
A ‘punchy’ start that ‘grabs’ the readers attention, such as speech, onomatopoeia or a piece of great description.
Three well described characters (looks, experiences and personality)
At least FOUR indented paragraphs
A sub-plot or flashback using ‘Meanwhile …….
A list to show that you know how to use punctuation; commas, colons, semi-colons etc.
A conversation to show  ̋ direct speech ̏  and new speech, new line. 
A well structured story, having a beginning, middle and an appropriate end.
When you have finished, edit the story. Read your story VERY carefully, asking yourself, ‘Does this make sense?’ If it doesn’t, change the sentence so that it makes sense!

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