The document provides helpful hints for writing a story, including establishing the setting and characters at the beginning. It suggests using description to transport the reader to an imaginary world through a door or hole. A mythical creature could then appear somewhere in the imaginary world and the writer should describe what it looks like and what it does. There should be a complication, such as the creature capturing the main character or a problem arising when trying to help it. Finally, the ending should resolve the complication without explicitly stating "The End." The checklist reminds writers to use proper punctuation, powerful words, paragraphs and more.

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.