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Creating a Story

SHORT STORY
• It is an artistic form of
prose fiction which is
centered on a single main
incident whose aim is to
produce a single dominant
impression.
A short story conserves
characters and scenes,
typically by focusing on just
one conflict, and drives
towards a sudden,
unexpected revelation.
How to Write a Short
Story
Collect ideas for your story
Thinking about settings

What is a setting?
A setting is where the story takes place. It could be
anywhere, for example maybe a cottage, haunted
house or even the park.
Characters
Two- four characters are enough for a short Show how they feel
story here’s how to make them sound real. using adverbs and
adjectives.
For example
Pirate names: scared face bob, red beard, For example
The horrible buccaneer of the east. Tired, angry, excitedly,
happily, sadly, curiously
Don’t use your friends names In the story!
Use your imagination use names that people
don’t use often ,think of funny names if your
doing a humour story.

Describe what they look like, who they are,


how they move and maybe how they talk.
Pick 2 of these characters and write 3 or 4
sentences about them.
Writing an excellent story!

These question words are very


important when writing stories
Who, what, how, where, when and why

The little girl ran quickly to the shop to get some


bread, at 7 am so her mum can make toast.
Use these ways to improve your writing
Alliteration- (2 or more words that start with the same letter )-
e.g scary spiders.

Rhyme- rumble and tumble

Onomatopoeia- (words that sound like the thing they describe)-


e.g jangling, tinkling coins

Similies- they compare one thing to another and are


introduced as like or as e.g the wet mud was sticky like fudge
cake

Metaphors- compare one thing to another but are not


introduced
by like or as e.g the wet mud was sticky fudge cake.
What should I include in a good
story?
events
An interesting story will contain events

A strong exciting plot has an unexpected event, a crisis,


or a problem, which needs to be sorted out by the end of
the story. Stories can contain more than one problem.
Plans could go wrong:

There could be an accident


Something or someone could get lost
A machine could break down
Something important could get stolen
Story endings
Explain the result of the events or show how the problem was
solved.
(but don’t end with everyone going home for dinner or someone
waking up to find it was all a dream –that’s boring!)

Endings usually bring the story round full circle for example:

Start: three scruffy pirates sat gloomily around a table in the lord
nelson pub, staring down into their empty beer glasses. One by
one they emptied out their pockets. It seemed they all had run out
of money.

End: the pirate gang made their way down the quay to their
favourite pub to celebrate their success. They had earned enough
money now to buy a whole years worth of beer- and have change.
Write a Catchy First
Paragraph
• The first sentence of your
narrative should catch your
reader’s attention with the
unusual, the unexpected, an
action, or a conflict. Begin with
tension and immediacy. Remember
that short stories need to start
close to their end.
Note the difference.
• “I heard my • “The neighbor
neighbor through behind us practiced
the wall.” scream therapy in
his shower almost
• - Dry and uninteresting every day.”
• -The second sentence catches
the reader’s attention. Who is
this guy who goes in his shower
every day and screams? Why
does he do that? What, exactly,
is“scream therapy”? Let’s keep
reading…
Build to a Crisis or Climax
• This is the turning point of the
story–the most exciting or
dramatic moment.
• It is “the moment” the reader has
been waiting for. In Cinderella’s
case, “the payoff is when the
slipper fits.”
Find a Resolution
In short fiction, it is difficult to
provide a complete resolution
and you often need to just
show that characters are
beginning to change in some
way or starting to see things
differently.
Story endings
The final sentence is as important as the opening sentence. It
usually sums up the stories theme or message.

It had been the best day of my life.


I’ll never forget her.
If only he hadn’t been so selfish.
She realised taking part is much more important than winning.
It just goes to show, crime really doesn’t pay.
They were richer than they could ever have dreamed.
Story board?
Storyboards help you to plan a
story without writing it all out

Opening? Setting?
Characters?

How it is
Problem… solved…
Ending…
Now you are going to plan a
great story!
Checklist:
Title for your story
Setting where will it take place?
Characters who will be in your story?
What problem will they have?
How will they solve the problem?
How will the story end?
Let’s go to work!

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