Definition of Story Writing

 Story writing involves narrating real or imaginary events featuring characters in specific settings.

2. Essential parts of a Story

 Characters: The individuals who participate in the story's events.

4 characters : Hermoine : girl, she extremely intelligent, she was not likeable, she had curly hair, fair/light
skin tone, high pitched voice

 Setting: The time and place where the story unfolds

Harry potter: Set in modern day London, where witches and wizards live alongside humans.

Alice in wonderland: Victorian England.

In the forest middle of the night.

 Plot: The sequence of events that make up the story.

Driving in the forest, random guy asks for help (to drive to his house), while talking a random guy ad
camel disappears.

 Conflict: The central struggle or problem faced by the characters.

 Theme: The underlying message or main idea of the story.

Be careful in the middle of forest

  Style: The author's unique way of expressing the story.

 Point of View: The perspective from which the story is told.

Your cousin’s grandfather.

3. Structure of a Story

 Introduction: Sets up the story by introducing characters, setting, and initial situation.

Yolanda: She is an explorer in the 16th century, she’s tall and smart, she wears really cool leather pants and
a linen shirt, she has a chopped red bob.

Titi: He is Yolanda’s assistant, He’s a short well-built man, he wears safari pants with a normal t-shirt

Setting: Both of them are exploring the tropical Amazonian jungles to discover animals that the world
thinks to be extinct.
“chck, chck, chck”, she heard from a far and took out her dagger. Yolanda has been roaming these
jungles for the past 5 years, they are like her backyard. She knows every sound and tree of the jungle.
“Yolanda, do you want some cherries?!!!” said Titi. “Don’t be stupid! Focus on the sound there is
someone else in the jungle”.

“Yolanda look it’s not another human, I can see a trail of feathers” said Titi. Yolanda looks around,
there is nothing but tall towering trees around her and the mushy forest ground. “Fine. Let’s follow
the trail” replied Yolanda.

As they walk along the trail the sun starts setting, so they decide to set up camp. “it’s getting darker
and darker and I am scared” says Titi looking at Yolanda. “Titi its been five years how can you still
be scared?” The forest party sleeps to get a good night’s rest so they can follow that feather trail in the
morning.

The sun starts to rise with beautiful new day, yawning Yolanda says, “Titi wake up!! Now!! We have
to follow the feather trail before it disappears”.Titi wakes up hungry and says, “Can we at least have
breakfast before?” Yolanda says grumpily, “fine just boil some eggs and get going”

Finally, they start starting following the trail and Titi says, “How long is this even going to take?”
“Wait wait wait, shhhhh I think I can see something!” exclaims Yolanda. Far in the bushes she
catches sight of a strange looking bird. “We have to tiptoe around the bird and verify what it is”
whispers Yolanda. They the walk closer to the strange bird to inspect it. Titi quietly gets bird net out
of his bag and throws it on top of the bird. Strangely the bird is alone near it’s nest. Yolanda takes the
checklist out of her bag to tick off Dodo bird realising that they found the last extinct specie on her
mission.

Shaila: She is a rude witch, she is dhalia’s sister and looks like her but with a pointier nose. She goes
to the witch academy everyday wearing a pink dress robe and a pink witch hat.

Dahlia: a witch who could not fly.

Setting: witchcraft land has disturbing weather conditions, it is always opposite to what people desire.
In the witch academy witched and wizards learn to control the weather.
A thousand years ago, the Fae Folk attacked witch land destroying their weather. Now because of this
Dahlia has to sit here in the scorching heat in the middle of winters and wait for my meteorology class.
“hehehehe, look at miss. Dahlia the falling witch”, said Zozo the class topper as she walked by.
Running Dahlia to the second floor as her sister is busy taking her botany class. “pstt psttt”, say
dahlia looking in the glass door trying to grab Sheila’s attention. Sheila noticed her annoying younger
sister and scribbled something on a piece of parchment, next she slipped it from the gap through the
window. “WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?!” says the note held by Dahlia. Stricken by sadness Dahlia
leaves her sister alone.

While walking home with her sister, Dahlia has a Eureka moment where she thinks that if she
practises alone without anyone watching her she could learn to fly. However, there was the problem of
no brooms allowed at home for underage witches. Next day the library while she was sitting alone
having lunch she comes across the book of ancient magic, mindlessly scrolling through the pages she
falls upon the chapter of “HOW TO FLY WITHOUT A BROOM?” Excited she instantly borrows the
book to take home.

As soon as she sat on the couch at home after school, she took her and pulled out that book. Eagerly,
she starts reading through. “The way to fly without a broom is risky business. One must acquire
tremendous magical power for the least…….” Read Dahlia. It took most of her energy to walk all the
way to her backyard after school since she was exhausted as she thought, “If I can’t even fly with a
broom how will I ever have enough magic to fly solo.” With all those thought wrapping around her
mind she took a turn and walked back to her room to sleep away the despair.
With a burst of energy after breakfast on beautiful sunny day, Dahlia decides to go outside and give
those steps a try. After warming up, she clears her mind and starting chanting the spell. Suddenly, her
feet start levitating, she gets scared and stops her spell midway falling on the ground with a backflip.

“What just happened?!!!” said Dahlia. She realised flying came to her naturally. Quickly picking
herself up she restarts the spell, louder and with more conviction. This time she is not just levitating
but actually flying. She realises this as she looks down and witchland is just a big town with small
witch huts and buzzing streets.
Mum said it was her birthday today.

Direct speech Indirect speech

Ali said, “I want cake” Ali said that he wanted cake
Mum said, “It is my birthday today.” Mum said it was her birthday today.
The teacher told the class, “Stop talking!!” The teacher told the class to stop talking.
Oscar said, “I have to leave immediately.”
William said, “see you later.”

“hush hush, don’t bother the witch”, said the house captain of woodland while she waked through the
corridor.

He said, “Pick up the stick and start practising.”

She asked, “Where are all the participants?”

She shouted, “LOOK DOWN!!!”

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  Body: Develops the plot through events and conflicts leading to a climax.
 Conclusion: Resolves the conflict and concludes the narrative.

4. Steps to Write a Story

 Brainstorm Ideas: Think of engaging scenarios or concepts.

 Create an Outline: Organize the sequence of events.
 Develop Characters and Setting: Detail the personalities and environments.
 Write the First Draft: Compose the story following your outline.
 Revise and Edit: Refine the narrative for clarity, coherence, and engagement.

5. Tips for Effective Story Writing

 Be Clear and Concise: Avoid unnecessary details that don't advance the plot.
 Use Vivid Descriptions: Employ sensory details to immerse readers.
 Show, Don't Tell: Demonstrate actions and emotions through scenes rather than exposition.
 Maintain Consistent Point of View: Ensure the narrative perspective remains steady.
 Engage the Reader: Start with a compelling hook and build tension to keep interest.
 Expository Writing:

 Aims to inform or explain a subject to the reader.

 Presents facts and information without personal opinions.
 Common examples include academic essays, how-to articles, and news reports.

 Descriptive Writing:

 Focuses on painting a vivid picture of a person, place, event, or object.

 Utilizes sensory details to engage the reader's senses.
 Often found in poetry, journal entries, and detailed descriptions in fiction.
 Persuasive Writing:

 Intends to convince the reader to adopt a particular viewpoint or take a specific action.
 Incorporates arguments, justifications, and appeals to emotion.
 Examples include opinion editorials, advertisements, and cover letters.

 Narrative Writing:

 Tells a story or recounts events.

 Includes characters, settings, conflicts, and plots to engage the reader.
 Commonly seen in novels, short stories, memoirs, and anecdotes.

Audience refers to the reader(s), eg could be an individual, in the case of a

text message, or a broader group of people in the case of a magazine article
or blog.
Purpose refers to the reason for the writing, eg to persuade the reader, to
entertain them, to share information, to warn, to advise, to explain.
Audience and purpose work together, as in these examples:
 I need to write a letter to my landlord explaining why my rent is late so she won’t be upset. (Audience =
landlord; Purpose = explaining my situation and keeping my landlord happy)
  I want to write a proposal for my work team to persuade them to change our schedule. (Audience = work
team; Purpose = persuading them to get the schedule changed)
 I have to write a research paper for my environmental science instructor comparing solar to wind power.
(Audience = instructor; Purpose = informing by analyzing and showing that you understand these two
power sources)

Form refers to how and where the writing will appear, eg an email, a blog, a
recipe, a leaflet, an article.
Language simply means the sorts of words you use, eg should your

language be:
 Every day or formal?
 Poetic or straightforward?
 Descriptive or clear?
Tone refers to the mood or feel of your writing, eg should your tone be:
 Friendly and chatty, or distant and polite?
 Sarcastic, pleading, or dismissive?
 Upbeat and positive, or calm and controlled?
Structure refers to the way you present your writing, eg should you use:
 Full sentences and paragraphs?
 Subheadings and bullet points?
 A sequence of linked paragraphs that lead to a final conclusion?