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Start-Up Activity
Read or share a story about a real person—a doctor, inventor, scientist, teacher, writer, musician, and so on. Then discuss how this story could become the starting point for a realistic story with fictional elements worked in.
Think About It
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”
—Orson Scott Card
Start-Up Activity
Read or share a story about a real person—a doctor, inventor, scientist, teacher, writer, musician, and so on. Then discuss how this story could become the starting point for a realistic story with fictional elements worked in.
Think About It
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.”
—Orson Scott Card