- Ways to bring out a feeling in your story:
Students were encouraged to isolate the part of each story that is the heart, or the moment the story is really about. This moment in the one a writer wants to write about with detail and feeling. To do that, one goes back to that moment to remember it, to relive it, to feel all the sensations and feeling of it. And to write those details in the way and the order that they happened.
- Staying in the narrator's point of view:
Writers have to be careful about only telling the story as it happened to the narrator, including only the details and dialogue that the narrator would have known at the time.
- Be picky about the details and dialogue you include:
Writers can't tell every detail about a moment or event. They have to choose the details and dialogue that will lead the reader to the meaning or message of the story.
- Edit as you go:
Strong writers are watching all the time for the things that make their stories readable.
