Fiction Writing Checklist

Thoroughly check these items in your story:

• The story is between 350 - 500 words
• I have capitalized i, proper nouns, and the first letter of every sentence.
• I indented every paragraph.
• I used dialogue.
• I used proper punctuation in my dialogue.
• I used juicy words by using a thesaurus.
• I listened to my story on Google Read & Write to be sure it makes sense or I read it out loud.
• I used a period or other ending punctuation at least every 2 lines.
• I used commas where I would normally take a breath when reading out loud.
• I used some adjectives.
• I used some adverbs.
• I have a title and it is centred, bolded.
• My name is centred under the title, bolded.
• My story is in Cambria 12.
• Double-spaced.
• My story takes place in 1 or 2 scenes.
• I describe the characters, scene, and action.
• There was a satisfying resolution to the story.