5H - Creative Writing - Characters and other important things

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

How to write a short story

Characters

Your characters need to have personality not just be girl A or Old Man B.

Thinking about likes and dislikes is an easy way to add a bit of depth. 

But go beyond that; think of little details of someone's life, their fears and dreams, maybe they have a stutter, maybe they are a really good singer, maybe they are a bully, maybe they want start their own business soon. 

Story

Think of the timeline

Which events happen and in what order?

But also...

Where does my story end and where should it begin?

Story

Where?

When?

Why? 

What?

Story

Where?

A dark forest. England. Another planet.

When?

10:00. 2012. The Future. At night.

Why? 

Why is your character in that location at that time? What events led up to the moment in your story.  Is this realistic?

What?

What is going to happen? What is the most important part of that? What feeling/idea/message do you want to leave your readers with?

Write two sentences that could be a story starter.

Write two sentences that could be a story starter.

Revision

Work on:

Creative writing assignment 2:

Your main character has a car accident and starts to hear voices while in the hospital. Write a short story about the conflict between the character and the voices and what really happened at the time of the car accident.

Between 200-350 words

Write two sentences that could be a story starter.