Today we'll examine story structure in more detail. Right now, before revision, your stories are tending toward bland and static narratives without much detail or dialogue. In looking at a standard story arc for establishing action, you can re-structure your stories, streamline them, and make them more engaging to the reader.
None of you opted to turn in a revision of story one, but remember that in revision we find our best writing. If you do revise story two, follow these guidelines:
--Turn in original with new version
--DOUBLE SPACE revision
--Turn in by December 4, Tuesday
We'll also give you some ideas for exploring your Christmas images poetically
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EXAMPLE: THE PARENT TRAP
ReplyDeleteStasis: Girls go to summer camp, sent by their loving families. They expect nothing but sum summer fun.
Trigger/Catalyst: The two girls meet each other and find they have identical faces.
Quest: After some initial fights, the girls bond and realize they have the same parents. They decide to get those parents back together so they can live together as sisters.
Surprise: Each girl decides to live in the home of the parent she has never known, disguised as the twin she is not.
Critical Choice: The girls learn that their father is marrying again; the decide to persecute his new fiancee.
Climax: The girls torment the fiancee out of the house, and the parents admit they still love each other.
Reversal: The girls refuse to reveal who is who until the parents resolve their differences
Resolution: The parents get back together; they have been "trapped" into re-marrying by their ingenious daughters.