Creative Writing

1) Exposition/Introduction: This part introduces the characters and their personalities.

2) Rising Action: This part helps recognize and reveal the conflicts of the characters to another character or to himself. This also shows the progression of the story.

3) Climax: This Part shows suspense (Turning point) In the novel that suprises the reader.

4) Falling Action or Resolution: this part demonstrates how the character had done accordingly in the rising action. (If we have a rising action we have the falling action.)

Major plot elements would be:

• Character
• Conflict
• Complication
• Crisis-Climax
• Change
• Resolution

There is, however, another school of thought that involves 8 parts of a plot:

• Point of entrance
• exposition
• defining event
• rising action
• crisis
• falling action
• denouement
• closure

To be technically correct, a plot can be generalized as "whats going to happen" in a story. All stories are different, and some will have more or less plot points than 5.

A metaphor compares similar qualities in two situations without using the words "like" or "as" (which is called a simile).

Example : "It's dark."

Using Simile : "It is as dark as a moonless night."

Using Metaphor : "It was a heavy cloak of gloom that covered the land."

Using Metaphor : "The darkness was an eternal, endless, subterranean abyss."

Drabbles are tough! They have to be exactly 100 words.

Here's how I do it:

• Plot out my story -- it has to be a really short scene, too
• Write a really rough draft and count how many words it is -- it'll be way over 100
• Rewrite the rough draft into a shorter version. You'd be surprised how much you can cut out and still have the main idea come through!
• Count those words and cut again!

You will end up with the "bare bones" of a scene, no frills, no extra bits. This is a great way to learn how to cut out all the extra stuff that usually isn't needed in a story.

Write about whatever is interesting enough to make you want to write about it! If you try to write about what other people think is interesting, or write what you think is going to sell a lot of books, you're going to end up bored and write a dull book (if you even finish the thing at all). If you pick a topic that is interesting to you, then you will be motivated to do the research necessary to write a good book, and will want to put in the hours of writing and editing that you will need.

If you are asking about writing a shorter work, such as an essay or short story, the same idea is true - write what is interesting to you. If the teacher gives you a topic, pick some aspect of that topic that makes you curious enough to go look up some information on google.com or dogpile.com. If you are trying to choose a topic, pick one that relates to your own interests and hobbies.

The phrase "write what you know" is a good guideline. This does not mean that you cannot write anything that you have not experienced yourself - if you are interested enough to research a topic and learn all about it, then you doknow that topic!

I would think so as long as it is in quotes and you give that person credit

Here are some good examples of exposition, which is the beginning of the story where you are introduced to the characters, the setting and the basic plot:

• The "crawl" at the opening of the Star Wars movies
• Once upon a time, there were three bears. There was a Daddy Bear, who was very big, a Mama Bear, who was middle-sized, and a Baby Bear, who was very small. They all lived together in a little cottage in the middle of the woods. Their favorite breakfast was porridge. One morning, after they made their porridge, Daddy Bear said, ‘Let’s go for walk in the woods until it cools.’ Mama Bear and Baby Bear liked the idea, so off they went. While they were away, a little girl named Goldilocks came walking through the forest and smelled the porridge…
• In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne’s husband, Chillingworth, comes to town while Hester is standing on the scaffold with her baby. Chillingworth’s dialogue with the townspeople fills the reader in on necessary expository details.
• At the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the viewer learns all they need to know about Dorothy’s motivation for leaving home through her interactions with the folks in Kansas before the tornado.
• James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues uses the brothers’ reunion and drive through the old Harlem neighborhood as a chance to provide expository details.
• The Godfather’s exposition takes place very quickly at the beginning of the film, when Michael explains the family business to his girlfriend, Kay, at his sister’s wedding. The viewer is then prepared to understand the stakes of having Don Corleone do anyone “a favor.”
• A newspaper story about a political candidate provides exposition to show readers the candidate’s background and experience.

Writing an assignment is the same as any other sort of writing. Decide what topic you will use - or use the one assigned to you - and decide if you are writing a fiction or nonfiction story.

Do your research and find out as much about your topic as you can. Then start writing.

Once you have gotten all the information on your page, it's time to edit. Go through your story and check spelling, punctuation, and grammar. You might try reading it out loud or having someone else read it to be sure that it says what you wanted to say and says it in the best way you can write it.

Here are some specific ideas for different kinds of stories:

When writing an adventure, you want to cut as much non-action as you can. Start in the middle of the action and keep things exciting. Write about what's happening, and add suspense to keep the readers interested.

When writing a mystery story, you need to work out your plot ahead of time so that all your clues will fall into place. You want a big enough puzzle to keep the readers interested, but not too many complications or it just gets out of hand. Mystery stories are good stories to outline - list all of the clues, red herrings, puzzles, and crimes that you will include in your story and make certain that each one is wrapped up by the end of the story.

When writing romance, use lots of emotion. Tell how your characters react to one another and show how they feel. Keep a conflict up between the main characters up until the point where they realize that they are in love.

When writing a scary or gothic story, you want to keep things dark. Have a sense of foreboding, whether with a real monster or just something scary hanging over the characters. Keep the readers wondering whether the scary things will happen or whether the characters will escape.

Spy stories are special adventure stories written about a person who collects information about the enemy and helps to bring that enemy down (or at least, to inconvenience them and thwart their dastardly plans). Have plenty of suspense and action, and be sure to research things like weaponry, geography, and different cultures so that your spy doesn't do something in the story that a real spy would never do.

Fantasy in modern writing has come to mean a story where things happen without a "good" scientific explanation, such as magic, fairy tale creatures, or vampires. To write good fantasy, you need believable characters and a good plot which will either explain how things work in your world or use the fantastic elements to help the characters solve their problems. Put in plenty of adventure and exotic locations!

• Unless an Author is writing something regarding him or herself, rarely will any of their stories reflect anything in their own life especially if they are writing fiction. An example of this might be that an author is writing a story about a serial killer. That doesn't mean that the author moonlights as a serial killer when that person isn't writing their book.

I'm sure Dr. Ruth hasn't had affairs of the heart with most of America yet she is a syndicated writer who writes about affairs of the heart.

• It truly depends on the writer. Some writers intentionally put little pieces of themselves in the works. Others refuse to do so at all and make a point to avoid it. Just another one of those things that vary from writer to writer.