Brainstorm

Remember, you can always brainstorm the way you feel most comfortable.
Examples include: webbing, listing, flow charts, pictures, or answering these questions

• Is the story personal or imaginative?
• Do you need to be creative?
• Do you need to think about something that has happened or could happen in real life?
• Think of the prompt, what strange or nonrealistic thing could happen?
• Does the prompt make you think of a fun, happy time or a sad, depressing time?
• As soon as you read the prompt, do you know what you want to write about?  If not, list 5 possible topics that you could write about.
• Do you not have that experience in your own life?  Write about someone else's life.
• What will the main idea of your story be?
• Who is going to be in the story?
• Where are you going to be throughout most of the story?
• What will your name be in the story?
• Are you going to be a villain (bad guy) or a hero (good guy)?
• How much time will pass in your story? (Make sure you check the prompt)
• What will the mood of the story be?
• What noises do you hear around you in your story?
• What things do you smell around you in your story?
• What do you see around you in your story?
• What things do you taste in your story?
• What things do you feel in your story?
• What will happen in your story? (Make a short list of events that you can use to help you order your story correctly)
• From these events that you've just listed, what event is the climax or the most important event that has to do with the prompt?
• In the end, what will happen to you?

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