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.

Describe your imaginary

world.
What

can you see?

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

Checklist
Have you remembered:
Capital letters and full stops?
Powerful

adjectives, adverbs and verbs?

Paragraphs?
Connectives?
Exclamation

marks?

New

marks, question marks, speech

line when someone speaks.

Keep

to the same person I doesnt change to

he unless there is another character.

NEAT

HANDWRITING.