{"id":6644,"date":"2018-02-13T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2018-02-12T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:50:29","slug":"short-story-character-limited-senses-video-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/short-story-character-limited-senses-video-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Story Character With Limited Senses &#8211; Video &#038; Free Download!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/short-story-character-limited-senses-video-free-download\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6647 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Short-Story-Character-With-Limited-Senses-Video-Free-Download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Short-Story-Character-With-Limited-Senses-Video-Free-Download.jpg 600w, https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Short-Story-Character-With-Limited-Senses-Video-Free-Download-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, students either love story writing or hate it. They either have ideas floating around in their heads, waiting for the next story writing unit&#8211;or they feel that they have no ideas and hope for a stomach bug that week! This is one reason I use the Directed Writing Approach in my books&#8211;so that each step of each type of paper is laid out incrementally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One common problem that students have when story writing is telling &#8220;first this happened; then this happened; after this, that happened; later on, this happened&#8221; by students. What could be an exciting, action-packed story becomes a narrative\/retelling&#8211;or worse yet, an essay. Have you ever wondered how to help students from the start with this rambling problem?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Well, I have a lot of ideas for story writing<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naming\/titling each scene or paragraph from the beginning so that the student knows ahead of time what they want to include;<\/li>\n<li>Having students list the primary goal right off the bat so that the entire time they are writing, they are heading towards that goal;<\/li>\n<li>Laying out believable obstacles that must be conquered or succumbed to or overcome;<\/li>\n<li>Teaching being, helping, and linking verbs in a systematic way so that students can avoid using them and use action-driven verbs instead;<\/li>\n<li>Teaching quotation and dialogue writing incrementally throughout the school year so that the student&#8217;s dialogue sings;<\/li>\n<li>And much more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(These elements are included incrementally in my creative writing books. Check out their full-length sample lessons here: <a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkstore.com\/product\/meaningful-composition-5-ii-creative-clever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MC 5 II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkstore.com\/product\/meaningful-composition-7-ii-completely-creative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MC 7 II<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkstore.com\/product\/meaningful-composition-9-ii-high-school-creative-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MC 9 II<\/a> as well as in many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkstore.com\/product-category\/write-on-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Write On books!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the first way that I ensure that students do not have a list of events strung together in their stories actually starts with the lesson itself: <strong>The characters, setting, obstacles, goals, and dialogue expectations MUST match the assigned length of the story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reason kids string together events one sentence after another in their &#8220;story writing&#8221; is because they were often not taught to NARROW, NARROW, NARROW according to how much space\/time they have.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/character.ink-rdreish\/Blog_Post_Downloads\/Short_Story_Character_With_Limited_Senses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click or tap to download lesson!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/character.ink-rdreish\/Blog_Post_Downloads\/Short_Story_Character_With_Limited_Senses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6646 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1.png 702w, https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with this story writing video (<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/character.ink-rdreish\/Blog_Post_Downloads\/Short_Story_Character_With_Limited_Senses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and free downloadable lesson<\/a>) that contains a TWO PARAGRAPH story to see how this is done. (Yes, two paragraph stories are harder to write than longer ones!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZ8OyVnfoBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Let me know what you think! Happy writing&#8212;and teaching!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In my experience, students either love story writing or hate it. They either have ideas floating around in their heads, waiting for the next story writing unit&#8211;or they feel that they have no ideas and hope for a stomach bug that week! 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