2018-01-22 Writing: story collaboration

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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Writing Stories
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BEGINNING
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To open a story, tell us when and where it happened:
	Once upon a time,... (This can begin a fairy tale.)
	Once, when I was a child,...
	Here's a story about the time I...
To introduce characters:
	Mary was a blonde girl who lived in...
	There was an old man who...
To begin the action:
	One morning, she...
	One afternoon after school, I went...
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MIDDLE (you’ll write part of the middle of TWO stories)
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To continue the action, use some of these transitions:
	First, we... (Second/Third/etc.)
	Then we...
	Next, ...
	After that, ...
	The next day, ... (The next morning/The next evening/The next week)
	After a few days, ... (After a couple of months/After two weeks)
	A few days later, ...
	Suddenly, ... / All of a sudden, ...
	At that moment, ...
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END
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To finish the action:
	Finally, ... (This is for the last thing that happened, not the end.)
	At the end of..., ...
	In the end, ...
To close/conclude the story:
	That's the story of how I...
	That's the reason why we now...
	And they lived happily ever after. (Fairy tale ending.)
	That's why you should always... (If you learned a lesson.)
	From that day on, ...
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Take 5 minutes to begin a story.
Then pass your story to the left and continue the story you received (with transitions to continue the action). Do this again.
Finally, take 6 minutes to read and conclude the story.