Seven Steps to Writing Success

When Planning for Success, what techniques are good to use?

• Cramming Ideas

• Create a Narrative Story Graph

• Use other peoples ideas

• Start writing - think about ideas as your writing

• Brainstorming

Can some of the Seven Steps help you write all kinds of texts, not just Narrative and Persuasive?

• Yes

• No

The Seven Steps can help you write what kinds of texts?

• Script for a Play

• Newspaper Article

• Recount

• Narrative and Persuasive Texts

• All of the above

How many steps are there?

• 9

• 8

• 7

• 11

What is Step 4?

• Show Don't Tell

• Dynamic Dialogue

• Backfill

• Sizzling Start

• Boulder

What do you Brainstorm when your planning for success?

• Just story ideas

• Names of Characters and how long your story will be

• Characters, Settings & Story Ideas

• What the name of the story will be

A Sizzling Start always starts in the:

What do you Tighten in Step 3?

• Tenacity

• Tensing

• Tension

• Tenderloin

• Tentacle

What are some things you can do to make your writing starts 'sizzling'?

• Begin with a lot of background information about characters.

• Begin with a lot of descriptive detail about the places.

• Make the reader curious and start in the moment of action.

• Always begin with "Once upon a time" or "My argument is"...

What strategy helps you with Step 3 - Tightening Tension?

• Make sure the hero fails early on in your story

• The six senses - see, hear, smell, taste, touch, feel

• Writing 5 paragraphs for tightening tension

• Use Pebble, Brick and Boulder