Writing Skills
To help a reader feel like they are inside the scene, experiencing it, it helps if you include
What is:
details from the senses
The most important person in the story
What is: hero, main character, or protagonist?
In the Dewey Decimal category system, these start at 100,200,300,400,500, 600, 700, 800, 900
What are:
New large (non-fiction) categories.
Rochester is built on one of the few rivers that run North.
What is: the Genesee River
A hero can be kind of boring if she or he is perfect and has no:
What is:
Character Flaws or Weaknesses
Where and when the story takes place
What is Setting
The name of a librarian at Sully Branch
Who is:
Steve or Jacob
This place in East Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester, has one of the remaining wooden roller coasters in the U.S.
What is: Sea Breeze, the Jack Rabbit.
By the end, readers tend to expect a hero to____________________________.
What is:
Grow or Learn
The reasons why a character does something.
What is Motivation.
How fiction books are found on library shelves.
What is: Alphabetically by author's last name.
(unless series are separated, or categories (graphic novels, mysteries) have their own shelves.
Rochester has two major Beaches.
What are: Charlotte beach and Durand Beach.
You create suspense and a reader's desire to keep going by creating ________________ in the reader's mind.
What is:
Questions or suspicions
The scene in a story where everything gets most exciting, on the way to being resolved.
What is Climax.
When the United States established libraries, they were different from British libraries in this way.
What is:
They were free and open to the public
(versus private and expensive)
Mayor of Rochester.
Who is: Malik Evans
When you have an action scene, or want to show a character's emotion, it can help if you show your character's 6th sense:
What is proprioception, or body sense.
All the decisions and actions that happen in the story.
What is PLOT.
The first famous library was in this country
What is Egypt (in the city of Alexandria).
Rochester is getting rid of a highway that used to form a ring around downtown.
What is the inner loop.