Creative writing 4V

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Welcome

Road map

Program this week

&

Test week

Writing skills - 

Scary story contest

This week

Today: story writing

Wednesday: discuss the test

and writing/reading skills

Friday: reading skills 

Test week

English (10%)

test on your reading skills. 

Practise on Eindexamensite.nl 

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Test week

19 November 

11.30 -12.30

Reading skills 

Focus 

Writing skills - short story

You learn how a story and its components - paragraphs - are built up. 

Reading skills?

Story writing

Short story

'a relatively short work of prose fiction, approx. 500 to 10,000 words, that, according to Edgar Allan Poe, can be read in a single sitting of two hours or less'. 

The short story works to create a single effect. 

(The Norton Introduction to Literature, 2013)

Story structures

1. Introduction 

2. Rising action - often there is some kind of conflict

3. Climax 

4. Falling action - attempts are made to work things out

5. Resolution

Creative writing structure

1. Jill and John are on holiday in Honolulu

2. They fight because he does not want to surf the waves

3. Jill goes alone and is attacked by a shark

4. John sees it, jumps in and fights off the shark

5. Jill thinks he's a hero and they live happily every after.

Creative Writing structure

1. It is 1904. Bettie and her boyfriend, Taede, are on holiday near Moddergat.

2. B wants to go for a swim in the sea, Taede wants to go watch the cows come home. 

3. They fight: harsh words are said, Taede walks out on Bettie

4. After Bettie has calmed down, she goes in search of Taede, hoping to find him

5. Alas... Taede is never heard of again. Meanwhile, Bettie still haunts the Frisian countryside  on sunny summer evenings in August. 

Do

Finish the short story

about 100 - 150 words

use the structure discussed

Prize for three Best Stories

Story structures

1. Introduction 

2. Rising action - often there is some kind of conflict

3. Climax 

4. Falling action - attempts are made to work things out

5. Resolution