A sample

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.