Thursday, 14 November 2013

Fairy Tale Ideas

Snow White: leaving home then moving in with 7 random men
                      women have no self confidence (talking mirror)
Beauty and The Beast
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland:
The Little Mermaid: Disobeying your parents gets you what you want

all disney princesses in one house, all freaking out
snow white can't handle being around all the girls
sleeping beauty cant sleep
cinderella's OCD kicking in
goldilocks
repunzel
jazmin

Monday, 4 November 2013

Tips For Writing A Short Story

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  1. Write a Catchy First Paragraph
  2. Develop Your Characters
  3. Choose a Point of View
  4. Write Meaningful Dialogue
  5. Use Setting and Context
  6. Set up the Plot
  7. Create Conflict and Tension
  8. Build to a Crisis or a Climax
  9. Deliver a Resolution
•You will find it very useful to collect ideas for your story. Little snippets of information that you can expand on are key when getting started.

•When developing your characters, make sure you know way more about them than you're ever going to write about, this allows you to write about them properly.

•Decide who is telling the story; First, Second or Third person.

• Start small, and go for detail.

• Learn to look and use objects around you for inspiration.

• Try to use suggestiveness and gestures to give a sense of character and story.

• Research : avoid making factual errors when you describe an object or place.

• Beginnings and endings should have a powerful impact – try to revisit them.

• Work on your dialogue - by listening whenever you are with other people.

• Read some of your writing out loud - How does it sound?

• Get straight into the story. Something has to happen.

• Look at a critical point in someone’s life or focus on heightened moments.

• Make sure the story is carefully observed and quickly told.

• Leave the reader thinking - perhaps with a surprise twist.