eac384 creative writing witnessing conflict

To help you brainstorm and plan your upcoming Short Story Assignment answer the following 9 questions in as much or as little detail as you find helpful. These questions are designed to help focus your ideas; they are not meant to trap you or stifle your creativity. You may end up changing your story completely when you sit down to write! Try to see these questions as guides in the planning process. Try to have fun with them!
1.Who is your protagonist and what do they want?
2.In what ways is your protagonist going to change during the course of the story?
3.What happens to set the narrative in motion? What is the inciting incident that interrupts the stasis?
4.What point of view are you writing the story in and why?
5.What is universal about your story? Why is it relevant to other peoples lives? Why should somebody care who doesnt face the same problems as your characters? (For instance, none of us grew up in medieval Verona, children of two warring families, but we can all relate to the experiences of love and loss.)
6.What is at stake for your protagonist? How will the events put them in peril (physically, psychologically, or emotionally)?
7.Which section of a bookshop do you imagine this story would appear in (literary fiction, young adult, crime, etc.)?
8.In which of the following ways will your story be entertaining?
oBeing held in suspense.
oWitnessing conflict
oEmotional stimulus
oAccessing gossip and secrets
oReceiving useful or interesting information
oThe strange: the bizarre, unusual, and exotic
oTitillation, the taboo, and the erotic
oExperiencing beauty and wonder
oRidiculing & reviling others (Satire)
oComedy

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