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That is, readers are captivated by interesting characters, while plot and action alone always leave them unsatisfied and bored. To uncover any story is to investigate the story character's deepest and most hidden truths.
It turned out that's what he really wanted all along. For Stepping stones to science: It is an even greater joy to find a way to relate that history using the fullest power and allure of the form of a story. International Conference on Discovery Science Date: Teacher Ideas Press, Physical sciences, biological sciences, and earth sciences are represented in the thirteen stories. History is last week's television episode.
I have to dig for the hidden motives, desires, goals, quirks, habits, and traits that make the character compelling. My job as a writer is to develop a character fully, so that the character's wants and goals, risks and conflicts, and struggles loom in vivid, multi-dimensional, larger-than-life detail in the minds of my readers. Once that task is accomplished, the rest is editorial detail.
I am fascinated by history, and especially by military history. I find that, as a culture, our sense of history and of our place in it is steadily and dangerously diminishing. It is as though we live in a perpetual, floating present which simply is, with no connected historical context or development that led to this particular present. History is last week's television episode. Ancient history is last quarter's corporate report, or last season's hit situation comedy.
Yet there exists a fascinating world of high-stakes struggles, dilemmas, risks, and dramas that lie scattered in the path of our collective past. It is a joy for me to wade through this history and ferret out what really happened.
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This book has everything you need to get started, including detailed directions and guides for more than 40 powerful storytelling exercises to use with your class. Close encounters with deadly dangers: The stories in this book are divided into two sections: All predator and prey behavior, traits, biology, and relationships presented in these stories are typical of other documents traits of the species involved and are based on extensive documented field and laboratory studies; the characters in these stories were created to be representative of the normal behavior of their species and typical of their environment.
Three brief sections follow each story: These sections are also used to include significant and interesting predator information that is not included in the body of the story. Children's and adult listings are included in the bibliography for both species-specific references for the main predator of the story and the ecosystem as a whole.
Coaching students to "start with storytelling," the author and storyteller shares a vital but often forgotten step of the creative process. His practical and detailed guide provides directions for 38 writing exercises that help students create powerful and dynamic fiction. All the steps - from finding inspiration and creating believable characters to making the final edit - are covered.
Activities, coded for grades from primary through high school, can easily be adapted to other levels.
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