Story Workshops : Talk for Writing, Ages 7-12 (Paperback, 2 New edition)

1. Introduction  2. Capturing stories (techniques for creating ideas, creating story triggers and plots, using common story types  3. Characterisation (planning your character, characterisation through saying and doing, showing rather than telling)  4. Settings (creating settings, scary settings, settings in different types of story)  5. Openings (writing opening lines and paragraphs, character openings, setting openings, action openings)  6. Paragraphing (resolutions and endings, endings, action, build-up, suspense, dilemmas, cliffhangers, flashbacks, paragraph changes)  7. Style (using words, varying sentences, using stylistic devices, changing viewpoint)  8. Different types of story