how do I write a fiction story for grade 7
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Fiction is a fabric of lies, and your job as writers is to mend all the holes in the material. The key to doing this is in your characters. If we can empathize with your characters and believe in their motivations, we will stick with your story no matter where you take us. Below, you’ll find some tips to help you write your stories.
Writing Tip #1
Getting Started
Writers fall into two camps: “pantsers” or planners. Either you write by the seat of your pants, or you like to outline your story. Here’s a simple formula that works for both types of writers. Character goal + motivation + obstacles = story. You can flesh out the details in your outline or your first draft. The choice is yours.
Writing Tip #2
Plot and Character
Character is action, and action is plot. When you build obstacles in your story, how your characters face the obstacles will reveal their characters. If your characters are brash, they’ll tackle anything head-on. If they are manipulative, they lie to get their way.
Writing Tip #3
Endings
The climax of the story should create the maximum physical and emotional jeopardy for your protagonist. If the readers don’t care what happens to the character at the climax, then you haven’t raised the stakes enough. The climactic battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader is a cool light sabre fight, but the fact that father and son must battle gives the climax its maximum intensity.
Writing Challenge
Prompts
Try this as a prompt for a short story:
A girl walks down a dark street in the middle of the city. She hears footsteps echoing on the pavement behind her. She turns to look, but no one is there. What does she do?
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The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she lived
with, her only boy. He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports
to escape her Sicilian roots keeping her family history away from her English husband and her children. However a cup of tea with her Sicilian aunt results in her being drawn back to her roots, and the mafia connections.
Maria tells her story, her memories of her mother, the visits to Sicily and family there. An enthralling glimpse into another world where grandmothers keep a gun close to hand, and it pays to be very respectful to others - who knows what mafia connections they may have. Maria has recently retired, is enjoying life in West London, and uses some of her free time to visit her aunt. In so doing she is drawn into Sicilian plots and intrigues, ranging from making a man love a woman to dealing with a violent husband. Eventually Maria takes her family to visit Sicily, and becomes embroiled in revenge and justice mafia style. Certainly exciting and riveting reading.
The book has a list of characters and Sicilian/Italian words at the front, which I found a little daunting, but in fact I only referred to them on a couple of occasions. Although the book covers 4 generations of Maria's family, it is very clearly written and I was never confused as to who was who. The Sicilian/Italian words used are done so in context, blend in well, and are mostly explained in the main text.
We start with Maria (Mary) presently in the UK, who feels that she is caught between two cultures – Sicilian and British – although she hasn’t been back home to her Sicilian village for over four decades. Having migrated to London as a child she now reads The Times, the Economist and the Financial Times. She has also joined the UK Conservative Party, and occasionally imitates BBC newsreaders to get a posh accent after graduating in English. She met and married Humps, an investment banker, and had two children with him. There are, however, Mafia links within Maria's family.