Telling Your Story
Telling Your Story
Telling Your Story
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- Telling Your Story
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- Writing for Events
- Adding Friends/FOL Content
- Employment listings
- Job Posts Boilerplate
- Process/Listings page
5Ws
5Ws
What is happening? How and Why?
- What is the purpose of the story?
- Who is the intended audience?
- What does the audience needed to know?
- What are the important aspects of the story?
5 Parts of a Story
5 Parts of a Story
1. Exposition: This may be what is happening now, or what happened in the past.
2. Rising action: Something happens to set events in motion.
3. Climax: Events reach a point where something important happens.
4. Falling action: The immediate effects of the climax.
5. Resolution: The long term effects of the climax (often just hinted at in movies).
Characters: Who is it happening to?
Characters: Who is it happening to?
- Are there characters or people who need to be included in your article or story? If so
- How are they important? Why are the important?
- What is their role in the story?
- If writing a story (fiction or nonfiction)
- Why do they make the choices that they do?
- IS character development part of your plot?
Setting and Time: Where & when is it happening?
Setting and Time: Where & when is it happening?
- Does the location have meaning to the story?
- Does the time period have meaning to the story?
Theme: Why is it happening?
Theme: Why is it happening?
- What is the purpose of your story and who is the intended audience?
Genre
Genre
Genre: What kind of movie or story are you telling?
- History
- Interviews or Biographies
- Community Snapshots
- How-tos/Instructional
- Educational / Lifelong Learning
- Events
- Reviews
- Stories
- Horror
- Sci-fi
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Slapstick comedy
- Documentary
- Music or Drama