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Writing a Realistic Story

Choose a Topic 🟪 To come up with a good idea for your story, follow these steps:

• Write down at least three exciting, funny, or odd events from your life.
• Choose one event to use as the starting point for your story.

Test the Event 🟪  Your story idea will work if you can answer yes to these questions:

• Do I remember many details about this event?
• Will my classmates like to read about it?
• Can I keep this story realistic but alter it to make it fictional?

Tip

Your story should have a problem that needs to be solved. In the sample story, Rob was afraid he was going to strike out. (You can fictionalize a real event using this strategy.)