Before you began this lesson, you completed some prewriting activities, resulting in several lists of ideas for the different elements of your story. To draft your story, keep your prewriting notes where you can refer to them easily. Choose a point of view for your story and start telling the story in writing, moving from one plot point to the next. If you think of better plot ideas or any other changes, feel free to include them. Writing fiction is a very creative and flexible process--great ideas could come to you at any time!
The activity below will guide you through the drafting process. When you have finished all five steps, copy the text on the last slide and paste it into a word processing document. (Use control/command + c to copy and control/command +v to paste.) Save this first draft of your story so that you can add to it throughout the rest of this lesson.
Write the first two paragraphs of your story. These paragraphs should include exposition details and a sentence that announces your story's conflict.
Now write the next 2 to 3 paragraphs, which should include your story's inciting incident--the event that gets the story started.
Next, write the middle section of your story, which includes all of the events that are part of the story's rising action.
Write the part of your story that includes the climax of the plot--the most exciting event, when the conflict must be resolved.
Write the last section of your story, including the plot's resolution.
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