Characters:
List each of the main characters:
What are their names?
What kinds of people are they?
What important details do we learn about
each character?
Setting:
Where does this take place? What various
settings do we read about?
What details do we learn about the various
settings?
What feeling do you get from the settings
of the story? Why?
Conflict:
What is the major conflict?
Why is this conflict important to the
characters in the story? What motivates
the main character?
How is the conflict resolved?
Structure of a Story
Abstract- tells the reader/listener that a story is about to begin
Orientation- identifies the time, place, characters, and the basic situation of the story
Complicating Action- an unusual, special, or interesting event that makes the story interesting (answers the question "then what happened?")
Resolution- the conclusion of the narrative events / how the conflict ends ("answers the question, what finally happened? / how did it end?")
Evaluation- clarifies the point of the story (answers the question, "so what?")
Coda- signals that the story has ended
My story
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Outline for
Creative Writing Genre
For your short story please give the following information
Orientation:
Complicating
Action(s):
Conflict:
Resolution:
Main characters
Names?
Personalities?
Important
Details?
Setting
Where
does this story take place?
What
specific details make this place special?
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