Im studying for my English class and need an explanation.
After reading The Time Machine, we want you to create your own short story. It should contain all of the elements of a short story including exposition, rising action, climax, resolution, and falling action or denouement.
Your story must include some element of time travel. You are allowed to move forward or backward in time. You may write in the first person or in the third person. However, you need to make your choice consistent throughout your story.
Your story needs to reflect that you spent a significant amount of time crafting it. You are aiming to turn in a completely polished piece of writing. You are writing to entertain!
For your reference a short story is generally no shorter than 1000 words and no longer than 20,000 words. Aim for a word length within those parameters.
Fiction writers get inspiration from:
There is one place that writers do NOT ever go to find the gem of inspiration. They NEVER EVER tell a story that has already been told. If it isnt plagiarism (and it might be if you dont change enough), then it is an equally evil sin in the kingdom of creativity called being DERIVATIVE.
Spend a few minutes writing about your idea. This will not be part of your story, but it will make the writing the story easier.
Characterization (Part 1)
Characterization is the most important part of a story. If readers dont love, hate, or believe in your characters, your story is doomed.
Good characterization comes in planning the four following qualities for each significant character:
NOTE: The characters obstacles become the conflict(s) of your story
To complete step two in writing your story create at least 2 or 3 characters by filling out this chart.
Character Name | Character #1 | Character #2 | Character #3 |
Age/Sex | |||
Physical Description | |||
Personality | |||
Quirk | |||
Motivation | |||
Objective | |||
Obstacle |
This diagram should look familiar. This is Freytags pyramid, which is a popular way to chart the plot of a story or film. Each event or scene is a complication in the plot. For a short story you should limit yourself for between two and four complications. The more developed each complication is, the more interesting your story will be. Each scene will have dialogue, action, and description. Do not skimp on any of these parts or your story will be thin.
Next you will complete a plot outline for your short story. You can copy and paste the chart below into a word document.
Select a point of view from which to tell your story.
You need to decide who is going to tell your story and why that is the best choice. Consider the following questions:
You must make a narrative selection and stick with it through the entire story. If you are not sure which point of view to choose, write the first few sentences a couple of different ways until you find the way that feels right.
As you draft you must balance three important things:
Creative writing is an art form much like playing an instrument or painting with techniques that must be practiced. Consider the following techniques and let them guide your drafting.
Step five: Revising and Editing
When you finish drafting, you will be tempted to throw your hands in the air and walk away triumphant, but you havent even run the race yet. The most important part of writing is revising. Revising is not quickly reading over your text, changing a couple words, and calling it a day. REVISING IS RETHINKING!
The actions of revising are: ADDING REMOVING MOVING CHANGING
Revise by reading your story out loud and really listening to it. Ask others to read your story and give you feedback as well.
Use the check list below revise effectively:
Have I maintained consistency in voice (point of view)?
Are the words chosen carefully for connotation (tone)?
Are the phrases/images unexpected, memorable, or clever? (Remove clichés)
Are active verbs used consistently?
Are the first and last sentences the strongest? (Make it so!)
How is your story surprising (but still focused)?
Do you telegraph your twist (reveal it too soon)? (If so, rewrite it.)
Is the audience going to get it in the end? (If not, figure out a way to make it clearer.)
Use the checklist below to edit your text effectively:
Is my spelling correct?
Is my capitalization correct?
Is my punctuation correct? (periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semi-colons, colons, hyphens, slashes, parenthesis, brackets, italics, underlining, quotation marks)
Are my sentence boundaries correct?
Have I avoided sentence fragments (SF)?
Have I avoided run on sentences (RO)?
Have I avoided comma splices (CS)?
Have I followed the other rules of grammar?
Do I have subject-verb agreement in every sentence? Do I have noun-pronoun agreement in every sentence?
Are my lists parallel?
Are my subject-object assignments parallel?
Have I followed the rules of usage?
Are my verb endings and combinations correct?
Have I used articles where they are needed?
Have I avoided misplaced/dangling modifiers?
Have I indicated possessives with apostrophes?
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