Meeting your character for the first time (Las Vegas Story)
Expectations:
- Well-written (precisely chosen words and carefully crafted sentences)
- logical (story makes sense)
- meaningful (story has a purpose and appropriate focus)
- Proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation
Length:
- 2-4 pages (double-spaced; written or typed on nice clean paper)
Requirements:
- Show, not tell emotions
- At least three examples
- Include dialogue/conversation
- Quotation marks
- New speaker = new paragraph
- Paragraphs
- Group of sentences about a single topic
- Don’t forget to indent
- Adjectives (useful; meaningful ones only)
- At least two examples
- Personification
- At least one example
- Remember: don’t overuse “that” & avoid hyperbole (exaggeration)