Join us online at 2pm today for another exciting writing adventure! Today we will be doing free writing as well as working on our story structure and timelines!!
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-Happy Writing!!! -A.J. Mathews -creator of NA4
Today we did the following:
Title page 1
Story Summary Page 2-3
Character List Page 7
Page 8 - 47
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Today at camp we did:
Discussed the "beats" of a story
STORY BEATS
*see below for info
We worked on writing chapters 1 &2
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Today at camp we did:
Free Writing
take out a notepad and using a writing starter (slide 5) wrote whatever comes to our mind for 5 - 10 minutes
Learned about Story Beat
5, 6 & 7
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"Inspired by the 15 story beats from Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody..."
Every book needs a name! Let’s think of one for YOUR story.
👉 Look at the first page in your writing book.
Can you think of a fun, cool, or exciting title for your book? You can write anything that pops into your head!
🎨 Need help? Try one of these starter ideas:
✍️ Write your title in big letters on the title page!
Let’s meet your characters!
👉 Start by naming 1 character. This can be your main character—the star of your story.
🎭 Some fun name ideas:
Once you have one, you can name more characters later—up to 10 if you want!
Now let’s think about what happens in your story. You only need a few sentences to start!
🎯 Try to answer these questions:
📝 Example:
"My story is about Max, a boy who finds a flying bike. He wants to find out where it came from. On his trip, he gets lost in the sky!"