Steps to Writing Success
This step involves brainstorming and generating ideas.
What is Step One, Plan for Success?
This part of the Story Mountain introduces the characters and setting.
What is the Sizzling Start?
A type of writing that helps us to Show rather than Tell.
This punctuation mark is used to indicate possession OR contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
This author wrote "Romeo and Juliet."
Who is William Shakespeare?
This step focuses on organising ideas into a logical sequence.
This stage presents the main problem or conflict.
What is the Inciting Incident OR Problem?
Accepted alternative answer: What is Tightening Tension?
This device compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
This author wrote "Harry Potter."
Who is JK Rowling?
In this step, students decide how, and draft the moment in the story where the reader will be hooked in.
What is the Sizzling Start?
This is the turning point of the story.
What is the All is Lost moment OR Climax?
This device gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is Personification?
This part of speech expresses an action or state of being.
What is a verb?
This author wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia."
Who is CS Lewis?
This step involves improving the content and structure of the writing by doing one thing instead of another.
What is Show, Don't Tell?
This part shows how characters deal with the aftermath of the climax.
What is the Exciting Ending?
This device decorates sentences to make them more varied and complex.
What is descriptive writing?
This part of speech is used to connect clauses in a complex sentence.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
This author wrote a book about a small, hairy-footed humanoid who goes on a scary journey.
Who is JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit?
This final step encourages students to remove moments in the story that are less engaging.
What is Ban the Boring Bits?
This final stage wraps up the story and resolves any remaining issues.
What is the Resolution?
This device is an important lesson or idea that runs through the story, usually not in an overly obvious manner.
What is the theme?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause or break in a sentence OR act as an end mark for dialogue when added to a tag such as 'he/she said.'
What is a comma?
This author wrote "The Jungle Book."
Who is Rudyard Kipling?