This week, your homework involves more thinking than writing, but it is still very important because you are brainstorming the novel! If you don't like your ideas later on, it will involve a lot of make-up work, so make sure you like your idea now :D
- On a piece of paper, plot out your novel using a plot diagram. Make sure to have at least 5 rising action events. Also make sure that all of your events (after the inciting event) build on each other to increase the tension.
- On Google Drive, write out a scenes list of around 15-25 scenes that will occur in your novel. Each scene should have 1-2 complete sentences that describe it. i.e.:
- Betty is walking down the street in the alien world of Lum. Suddenly, an alien boy gets hit by a car, and Betty stays with him until the ambulance comes. (Exposition and Inciting Event both happen in this scene. That's okay.)
- Betty visits the alien boy in the hospital. He's unconscious, but she talks to him about her sad life story, thinking he can't hear her.
- The boy wakes up the next day, and tells Betty that he heard everything she said and she's embarrassed (when she visits him that evening). The boy asks her to visit again.
- When Betty visits again the next day, the boy is missing from the hospital. The doctors all act like he was never there, like Betty is insane. Betty realizes there's a conspiracy going on.
- Etc, etc, etc.
Be ready to talk about your ideas in class next week!
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