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.