Here are five steps for writing a story: Find inspiration, brainstorm ideas, outline the plot, write a first draft, and refine it through revision and editing. Every story typically includes five key components—setting, plot, conflict, characters, and theme. While stories can take countless fo...
ArXiv-2024 Navigating the Path of Writing: Outline-guided Text Generation with Large Language Models [paper] [Yukyung Lee, Soonwon Ka, Bokyung Son, Pilsung Kang, Jaewook Kang] EMNLP Findings-2023 Improving Pacing in Long-Form Story Planning [paper] [Yichen Wang, Kevin Yang, Xiaoming Liu,...
Let’s put the concept of the climax in a story to practice using the following creative writing exercise. Some of the best stories have come from a writer knowing the climax but not being sure how they got there. With that idea, start by writing five sentences to fill in the blanks ba...
Thousands of writers use the prompts below every month, some at home, some in classrooms, and even a few pros at their writing “office.” Why? Because writing prompts can be fun. They get your creativity started, help you come up with new ideas of your own, and often take your writin...
Also known as a persuasive writing outline template, or a persuasive writing graphic organizer, this type of template generally has a place for a student to define their opinion or thesis on a topic, and then support and elaborate on it with 3-5 key points. Create Persuasive Writing ...
Writing for Children and Teens: Should You Outline Your Story Before Writing?Maurene J. Hinds
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Trembling With Fear February 23, 2025 byLauren McMenemy Trembling With Fear 2-23-25 Greetings, children of the dark. Short and sweet here this week as I’m coming to you live from the UK Ghost Story Festival. It’s been a bit of a year of writing for me so far – I cannot believ...
*Yes, I know this is not a theme, and my creative writing teacher would mark me down for this, but I wanted to add something about this here. When this path is unlocked, each sentence expands the story, new details fleshing out the narrative, altering the meaning of the sentence, yet...
Narratology and Writing Instructions for Heroic Characters Related to both plot diagram and types of literary conflict, the ”Hero’s Journey” structure is a recurring pattern of stages many heroes undergo over the course of their stories. Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, writer, and lect...