Writing: Tell Me A Story

Why Tell a Story So why do we even bother to write yearbook copy?I mean, seriously… nobody likes to read and yearbook staff members claim they don’t like to write, so why go to the trouble?Let’s start with why we produce yearbooks. And why people buy them. Why Create the Story A yearbook captures memories.It is the sentimental version of a bank vault where we store the important events, the touching memories, those defining moments that give meaning and life to a year.The yearbook is a time machine that allows readers to remember what it was to be in high school, to be a teen.Yearbooks without stories have a hard time capturing defining moments or reminding readers who they were and how life has changed.To do this, you need to write stories that are captivating and personal.Once you learn the process for researching, writing and rewriting, you can write those engrossing stories for your yearbook. We All Love a Good Story Whether the story begins with “once upon a time…,” “did you hear…?” or “OMG!” we’ve been listening to and telling stories all of our lives.Telling stories isn’t difficult if you just stop to think about why you have always loved a good story.So how do you find a good story? So... How Do You Tell a Good Story? Focus on people, not events.Think about your favorite childhood stories.The plotline wasn’t the story of Hogwarts, but of Harry Potter and his friends.Story assignments are generally given in terms of what club, event or sport will be covered.Writing about the talent show or Key Club or English classes is a recipe for a dull story.Focus the story on a person or on a few people. Step 1: Brainstorming Web To help you determine what you know and what you want to know about a topic, complete a brainstorming web.Begin with a general story topic at the center and who, what, when, where, why and how in the six secondary boxes.Fill in the details of what you know and then the last circles will be filled with questions and information that you need to find. What is your story idea? Create a story idea from something that has already happened this year: football, cheerleading, homecoming, back 2 school, an academic section, volleyball, xcountry, or softball. Explain your story idea below. Your Brainstorming Web Using Google Drawings, create a web for your story. Use the image above to design your web and include:- Your Story Idea: Which topic are you choosing to write about?- Who: Who is in your story?- What: What happened?- When: When did the story take place?- Where: Where did the story take place?- Why: Why is this story worth telling?- Now: What is happening now that this event took place?Upload the link to your Google Drawing in the space below. You'll need to click the Share button on your Google Drawing and then copy the Share link to complete this.