The document discusses how The Simpsons television show began as a written story and has become the longest running cartoon show in TV history. It then provides information about the writing process, including exploring ideas through questioning, outlining main points, and keeping a journal to generate ideas. The process of writing stories for The Simpsons began with students in school desks struggling with writing, as all writers start somewhere.

1. Are any of you familiar with
this show?

2. WHAT IS THE LONGEST RUNNING
CARTOON SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF
TV?
How many of you love it? How many of you watch it?

3. How many of you are aware
that this television show
starts off a story written down
on paper?
Really? No Are
wa you
Say it isn't nuts?
so! y!

4. YES – IT IS TR
EVERY TV S UE!
HOW YOU
WATCH STA
STORY WR T RTED AS A
I TEN ON P
APER!
(Or a word p oc
r essor, of c u
o rse!)
THE WRITING PROCESS
THE WRITING PROCESS

5. So, what is The Writing
Process?
EXPLORING AND
PLANNING:
? ?
?
? Journalist’s Keeping a
questions? journal
outlining

6. Step 4:
Journalist’s questions
●
To view a topic from different perspectives, many writers ask the
questions journalists use the reporting an event:

Who

What

When

Where

Why

How

7. Step 5: Outlining
●
Is a list of writer’s main points in the order they will appear in an
essay or other written work.

Informal (easy one)

Formal (hard one)

8. Step last one:
Keeping a journal
●
To help generate ideas and explore relationships among them, a
journal – a notebook in which you record your ideas and reactions
to various issues.

9. One last thought . . .
Every writer working on The Simpsons
was a student who sat in a desk,
just like you are right now.
They also struggled with writing, just like you. But look
where they are now!