The document provides tips for creating mood in writing by using appropriate word choice. It includes four story starters to prompt imagination and continues sentences that could be completed to convey different moods depending on word choice. Writers are encouraged to copy the beginning of each sentence and let their imagination roam while remembering to select words that set the intended mood.

1. Spooky Writing Week EQ: How do I create mood in my writing with words?

2. Story Starters ~ Copy the beginning of the sentence and then let your imagination roam! Remember to create mood by using appropriate word choice. As I first stepped on the wooden bridge…

3. Story Starters ~ Copy the beginning of the sentence and then let your imagination roam! Remember to create mood by using appropriate word choice. Something in the closet was making a strange noise, so I opened it and…

4. Story Starters ~ Copy the beginning of the sentence and then let your imagination roam! Remember to create mood by using appropriate word choice. The black cat started to screech and hiss when . . .

5. Story Starters ~ Copy the beginning of the sentence and then let your imagination roam! Remember to create mood by using appropriate word choice. I couldn’t believe my eyes when . . .