Due October 18 (Narrative w/ picture prompt & FIX-IT 5)

SEQUENCE of EVENTS - Narrative writing w/ event sequences using a picture prompt

FIX-IT 5

IN EACH PARAGRAPH, remember Topic/Clincher and your required 
Dress-ups, Openers, and DEC:
w/w            #2  (prep)       DEC6  (alliteration)
bc               #3  (ly)
asia            #5  (asia)
QA              #6  (vss)
SV
ly

First - make up a story with a beginning, middle, and end using your picture prompt.
Instead of choosing three words per sentence, create your outline by asking questions about your story.

Here are some questions to answer:
What is the central conflict?
Where is the highest point (the climax) of the story? (This will help you identify the central conflict.)
Who is the main character? 
What does that character need or want?

The first paragraph: Characters and Setting - set the mood of the story

• Identify the characters that are in the beginning of the story and describe them. If there was a minor conflict, this can be part of the first paragraph because it is really defining the characters. 

If your story is very short, you might need to add in some information. 

What does the character look like? 
How does the character act? 
Where does he live? 
What kinds of things does he wear? 
What are his strongest personality traits?

Remember, you are using this paragraph to set the mood of the story. 

Here is an example of a KWO for the King Midas Story.   

I. King Midas 

1. good king, comfortable kingdom
   
2. sad, never enough gold
   
3. beggar, vineyard, invited in
   
4. beggar = god, reward, wish?
   
5. golden touch!
   

The second paragraph: Problem or Conflict
• Start with the problem (With King Midas, everything he touched turned to gold). 
• Then build the action. (In King Midas, it starts out fine—he is happy because he is getting richer. It all goes well until he tries to eat, and then he becomes terrified.)

The CLIMAX is at the end of the second paragraph but will also start paragraph 3 
(In the Midas example, he calls for help at the end of paragraph 2.) 

II. happy, everything touched gold

1. orders feast
2. sat down to eat
3. food gold! Frightened
4. tried eating fast, no good
5. starve?
6. All gold worthless if dead
7. Cries out

The third paragraph is the Climax and Resolution - how is the problem solved? 
In addition to solving the problem (good or bad), you can include what happened after. 
The story can end with a conclusion or moral, but it should have a clear ending.

III. beggar/god returns

1. not happy with gift?
   
2. No! food/happiness better, gold 
   
3. Go wash
   
4. Washed, pebbles to gold
   
5. Free!
   
6. Never greedy again
   

DO NOT just start writing your story. Work out your outline first. It does not need to be detailed, but the main parts should be worked out and ideas considered before writing. It will make for a much better story in the long run. Trust the system!


What to do if a character isn’t introduced until later in the story. . . . 
The first paragraph is to introduce the characters that are in the beginning of the story. If a character doesn’t show up until later (example: The wolf in the “Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the Prince in “Cinderella”), don’t mention him until he shows up. 

Week 5 

Years of indulgence had spoiled her beyond recognition however she recalled a time in her childhood when her charge had seemed a lovable tractable and contented child. 

She use to bring pictures she had drawn two Lady Constance and she had cuddled in her lap in the evenings. Sadly, when Dorindas mother was alive no expense had been spared too gratify the princess’s. 

No extravagance was to grate: Disneys Princess Castle Ground became thier playground, they each owned a personal set of the European Girl dolls and thier friends, with thier complete wardrobes, and ubiquitous furniture and accessories. 

Shaking her head in dismay Lady Constance one day clucked to Lady Inwaiting its no wonder that child has turned out so blemished. [quotation continues] 



source: IEW Narrative