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Keep Improving Your Stories

Discover essential writing tips to enhance your storytelling with sensory imagery and engaging leads. This presentation emphasizes the importance of using all five senses to create vivid, captivating narratives that resonate with readers. Learn how to formulate themes, angles, and focuses in your stories while ensuring unity and coherence. Through practical exercises and thought-provoking questions, this guide encourages writers to think critically about their work, ultimately leading to more immersive and impactful storytelling.

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Keep Improving Your Stories

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  1. Keep Improving Your Stories Some Writing Tips from the Bottom of My Heart This Powerpoint has Pretty Flowers on it

  2. Use Your Senses • When you are approaching a story, don’t only use one sense. Use them all. • Take notes on your subject and ensure you include sensory imagery in your work. It makes your work come alive. • Let’s work on these!

  3. Use Your Senses • He stood as tall as __________________. • You could smell it when you walked in. It was the scent of __________________. • Its sound is unmistakable. It is marked by its ___________________. • The wind blew in our faces, feeling like ___________________. • The fried pig feet were not necessarily unappetizing, and they had the flavor of ____________________.

  4. What would You Rather Read? • Darius Jones loves to eat cookies. OR • He doesn’t simply eat a cookie like the rest of us. He becomes a machine, built to consume cookies, shoveling them into his mouth like coal into a furnace.

  5. What’s in a Story? • Theme—make your story about something • Research—make your data come alive • Angle—how are you approaching the story? • Focus—what information are you going to use? • Order—make sure your story makes sense • Unity—make sure all elements work in concert

  6. Questions to Ask Yourself • What is my theme? Write this in a single sentence • Why did I choose my angle? • Who are my primary sources? Why should readers care about them? Secondary sources? • Are all the reader’s questions answered? • Does the tone match the content? • If I hadn’t written this story, would I still want to read it?

  7. What Makes a Good Lead? • Anecdote • Description of a scene • Description of a person • An excellent quote • A startling statement • A clever play on words

  8. Look Beyond the Facts

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