Writing Process
This describes when you write something for the first time
What is drafting?
What is writing a first draft?
This writer's trick helps you to come up with a bunch of topic ideas.
What is listing?
What is making a list?
What is a list?
You do this when you have a new Idea, Change in Character who speaks or acts, Change in Time or a Change in Location.
What is create a NEW paragraph?
Writers use this type of writing on the Internet to describe a product, teach something, or compare something?
What is blogging?
This is the time period used in Exploding a Moment:
What is a few seconds to a few minutes?
Use this when you rewrite something like the beginning, change some words or phrases, add ideas into your first draft - what is this called?
What is revision?
What is revising?
This writer's trick is important for any of the other writing tricks to help you.
What is asking questions?
What is asking yourself questions?
This describes how many times you hit the RETURN or ENTER key between paragraphs.
What are 2 times?
What is twice?
Blogs are different than in-school essays because you can do this:
What is use a conversational tone?
What is being conversational?
What is being informal?
What is informal writing?
This is the number of settings that should be in exploding a moment.
What is one?
What is one setting?
This is when you go back over what you've written and correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization and word usage.
What is editing?
What is edit your writing?
This writer's trick helps you to describe using the 5 senses and to decide on what mood you want your main character to be in
What is a mind map?
What is mind mapping?
You put this around the words a character is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
What are quote marks?
Lists and How to... Blog posts are two of the most common types of blog posts. Name the third most common type
What are reviews?
What is a review?
What are a mind map and a timeline?
What are mind maps and timelines?
This helps tremendously when you begin to write
What is planning?
What is brainstorming?
What is plan?
What is brainstorm?
This writer's trick is best used after you have a topic in mind and can be part of a first draft. It is timed.
What is a writer's sprint?
Writer's use this to separate the change in character who is speaking or acting.
What is paragraphing?
What is hitting return/enter key 2x?
What is white space?
This helps writers make money through their blogs.
What is a link to a product or service?
Tell whether this is True or False. The following is an example of a exploding a moment:
Yesterday, I sent a fax to my insurance company.
When you are ready to share your writing with others, this part of the process is
What is publishing?
What is publication?
What writer's trick uses very little writing, but helps the writer to visualize a setting?
What is drawing?
What is sketching?
What is making a map?
This is where the comma goes in the following piece of dialogue:
"Jenny! Where are you going? We can't go in there" warned Jamie.
What is AFTER there?
What is AFTER the word there?
What is before the END quotation marks?
What is before the END quote?
When a blogger wants you to click on something in their blog, they are using this:
What is a CALL TO ACTION?
What is a Call to action link or button?
True or False: The exploding a moment technique is used to tell a WHOLE story.
What is FALSE?